THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1978
Page 9
the sports
ry
pn lation’s best defense
Aggies high in stats
iTens A&M was a dominant force
this week's national college toot-
1, stat istics. It has been many
rs since the Aggies were so well
Presented in both offensive and
tensive statistics at the same time.
The AsiKies were third in total ol-
e nationally, behind Oklahoma
Bowling Green. Texas A&M
is also second in rushing offense
|d scoring in the nation.
Defensively, the Aggies currently
Jve the country s best team-
inking first in total defense, third
rushing defense, fifth in passing
f e nse and fourth in scoring de-
a ISc.
Texas A&M also hogs Southwest
inference team statistics this
■ek, while Aggie halfback Curtis
ickey and Arkansas halfback Ben
Lins are doing some serious
mbing in the individual career
ihing tables.
Texas A&M leads five of the six
am statistical categories, as
Ickey and Cowins begin moving
ion the top ten list of all-time
shers.
Dickey is seventh in the nation in
ihing and tied for third nationally
>byEdCa scoring with a 12-point average
r game. He enjoyed the most
iductive game a SWC runner has
n ' Chri ned in this season with lf>7 yards
the 58-0 victors over Memph
His wo!
dogy "!
ssing SI
Porch,’
: Kndini
Assan Jle Tliat padded his season s
kC rushing lead to 433 yards and
Ip gave him 2,137 career yards
[ought three games of his junior
ison.
He now stands 481 yards Irehind
„ Swink, the 1954-56 TCU All-
lerica who is currently in tenth
with 2,618 yards.
Cowins started the season in
Ith place and has added 307 y ards
a career total of 2,871 to stand
thon the all-time list. The Arkan-
seniorhas eight more games and
i virtual cetaintv to become the
rth 3,000-yard rusher in SWC
ton .
Teamwise, Texas A&M leads the
'Cin total offense (474.3 yards a
rushing offense (385.7 y ards
ate if ,x
•iently.
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rger hog
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total delense (117 yards a
rushing defense (57.3 yards a
ne and passing defense (59.7
ds a game). They also lead the
pic in scoring with 132 points
1 are second in defense against
ring, having allowed only 12
nts. Their 615 total yards against
rniphis State is the top single
neoutput this year among SWC
ms, as was their 523 y ards rush-
. , i [vs. Memphis State. Defen-
w ! dy, they allowed Mt *mpl s State
R . U ‘L ) 53 yards total offense for
c llt ' ^her single-game best.
'Ml held its lead in passing of
fense after taking the weekend off.
SMU is passing for 259.7 yards a
game.
Houston is second in both total
offense and rushing offense, running
for 295.7 yards a game, combined
with 140.7 yards a game in passing
for 436.3 yards total offense. Texas is
second in total defense and rushing
defense, allowing 62 yards a game
on the ground and 172.7 total yards.
Individually, Baylor's Steve
Smith continues to lead passers with
16.3 completions per game, fol
lowed by Mike Ford of SMU with
15.7. Sophomores are found eight
time among the top five of the 10
individual stat charts, while a
freshman, Thomas Brown of Arkan
sas, leads kickoff returners with 36.4
yards per return and freshman
Maury Buford of Texas Tech leads
punters with a 49.5 average.
Doug Cunningham of Rice is still
the leader among SWC receivers
with 5.7 catches a game, followed by
TCU s Craig Richardson with five.
While Baylor’s Smith and SMU’s
Ford are one-two in passing, it re
verses for individual total offense
with Ford leading at 243.7 yards a
game and Smith second at 223.3
yards a game.
SMU’s D.K. Perry retained the
retained the lead in punt returns
with 22.1 yards per runback.
Baylor’s Benny Goodwin is the
SWC interception leader with three
kickoffs in as many games.
Conference Quips: Can you beat
a full house? Attendance at SWC
home games is almost 9 percent
ahead of the record set in 1977 after
four home games Saturday drew
96.2 percent of stadium capacity.
Home games at Arkansas, Rice,
Texas A&M and Texas Tech drew
206,528 spectators, pushing the av
erage for the 11 home games this
season to 46,755. Top average at
tendance in SWC history was the
39,240 mark reached in 1976.
Texas Tech's retired athletic di
rector, J.T. King, was called to mid-
field before the Texas game Satur
day night and given a new electric
golf cart, cart trailer and battery
charged by friends. Along about
halft ime, J.T. discovered a hitch—he
didn t have a trailer hitch on his car.
Out of the blocks: Fred Akers of
Texas and Lou Holtz of Akansas
both now have 14-1 records as head
coaches in the Southwest Confer
ence. Akers’ 14-0 regular-season
record ties him with Matty Bell for
the second-best starting mark at a
conference school. Bell won 14
regular-season games at SMU in
1935-36. The all-time leader is Dana
X. Bible, who broke in at Texas
A&M with 20 straight victories and
a 24-0-1 record before his team was
defeated. Not only that, but Bible’s
Aggie teams were not scored on in
those 25 contests. The first team to
score against a Bible team at Texas
A&M was Texas when the Long
horns won a 7-3 decision in 1920 to
end the strng. Bible achieved his
mark in 1917 and 1919-20, taking of
the 1918 season for military service.
Toughest defensive chore in the
SWC this year? Going against Texas
A&M in the second quarter. The
Aggies are averaging 18.3 points in
that period. Next best is SMU with
14 points in each second quarter,
while Arkansas is winning them
late—scoring at an 11-point clip in
the fourth. Defensively, the Aggies
are giving up an average of 3.3
points for the last three quarters and
Texas is yielding 3.0 for the first
three.
Louisiana hayride: Rice games in
Houson continue to be a big draw
for LSU fans, as Rice officials esti
mate some 300 RVs with Louisiana
plates began filling up the parking
lot as early as Friday afternoon. Rice
coach Ray Alborn reports that he
heard two LSU players talking dur
ing the pre-game warmups. “This is
just like playing at home,’’ one of
the Tigers observed.
Back where he started: Saturday’s
meeting between Houston and
Baylor will he Bill Yeoman’s 176th
game as a collegiate head coach—all
with the Cougars. His first game
was a 19-0 victorv in 1962—against
Baylor.
Water polo team
ends California tour
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The Texas A&M water polo team
finished its California tour last week
with wins over Santa Clara Univer
sity and De Anza and a loss to Con
cord.
Steve Sampson scored four points
in the Aggies’ 9-5 v ictory over Santa
Clara. Sampson and Mike Newsom
led Texas A&M over De Anza with
three goals each in a 8-7 game.
Sampson and George Dallam scored
two points each as the Aggies fell to
Concord 10-7.
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