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I THE BATTALION tarsday, December 15, 1966 College Station, Texas Sports Aplenty Page 7 Witt ■e cl itioii. >n o( ttSt' M| n. ami 88(11 «ritt e * nioli. m. 38(ii Wtt :k«i. f Wit, 38(tl 'egtt, ysiai 'ibn. !»(«, m. 38!i) f tht Wo! ds u s Of. t. 'M!t II lot sirt ge u itn- elof'i (OTC Batb- tmi cu. ndtr- mj#l iy bt Jit. wir, ! dp {Owi, Hw u( idt ulre( 82tlt Easy Schedules By GARY SHERER The subject of easy schedules {or college football teams pops up often when discussions of top teams arise. The experts who pick these teams will usually use the spe cific team’s player strength and experience to equate that team’s power. It follows that they do not consider the team’s schedule in these rankings. On the other hand, a team that is picked to have a bad year by the experts usually has a tough schedule and cannot cope with the teams it is playing. As one can see, it is a very pro-and-con situation and one that is not easily settled. Yesterday we received a report on schedule power ratings com piled by Professor Gordon L. Wise of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Wise has received some noto riety from these ratings, as this is the second year he has done it. The Battalion ran an article yes terday about Wise’s ratings of basketball teams and their sched ules. Wise, assistant professor in the marketing management depart ment at Wright State, teaches a course in statistics and has used this knowledge to analyze sched ules of football and basketball teams. He has compiled a list of the top teams of this past football season. His system works like this, he gives each rated team what he calls “power points.” He then arrives at a total for each team by the number of times they ap pear on post-season top team rankings. After compiling a list of 33 teams, Wise then uses his frequency method and arrives at a final total. Notre Dame, which was at the top of most of the rankings, re ceived the most points (34). Michigan State was next with 33, Alabama 32, UCLA 30 and so on. When a specific team played any of these top 33, it received that team’s power points to add to its schedule rating total. The team that totaled the most points was naturally the top team as far as tough schedules were con cerned. Consideration was given for road games and for the school whose schedule contained games with opponents who had an over all edge in their series. With all these facts in mind, Wise arrived at a final result. Vanderbilt was acclaimed the top team for the toughest schedule by compiling 151 points from their 10 games this year. The top nine teams in the rank ings had losing records to further bear out the tough schedule theory. USC and Purdue were ranked 10th and 11th and were the highest winning teams rated. Notre Dame was ranked 15th and Michigan State, 14th. The Aggies were ranked in a tie for 11th with two other teams. While complicated, Wise’s find ings prove that the teams that consistently have winning seasons play the so-called easier sched ules. Wise emphasizes that these ratings do not take away from the strength of these top teams. It only compares their schedules with the losing teams. The controversy of easy sched ules will no doubt keep on for seasons to come. But with more people like Professor Wise com ing up with these reports, the NCAA will have to finally con sider the prospect of a football championship playoff similar to the one that is used in college basketball. This, we think, will finally solve the problem. <t to lit trir’i f in their 82111 riOK [OKS ini. Xfte 6 to ire Sltil 7H v=~ I puli. their esit- itek >ilitj rlnj! 1S(( II he Uitr from ougt S5t!l tices, Yon entil tiou fUI Sit- I8(tl Kelly Leads Two For Rushing Title NEW YORK i/P) — Leroy Kelly of Cleveland leads by 81 yards but the race for the National Football League rushing title is a three-man battle going into the final games of the season. With one game to go, Kelly has 1,122 yards and Dick Bass of Los Angles 1,041. However, Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears’ flash, is only seven behind Bass with 1,034. Kelly must run against the St. Louis Cardinals, Bass must take on the Green Bay Packers and Sayers faces the Minnesota Vik ings in the last games this weekend. Pat Studstill, Detroit flanker, has completed his season with 67 pass receptions and is threatened by Charley Taylor of Washington with 64 and Dave Parks of San Francisco with 61. Bob Hayes of Dallas needs 10 to catch up at 57. Taylor has become a real whiz since coach Otto Graham moved him from his running back position. Bart Star, Geen Bay quarter back who was injured in the first half of the Baltimore game last Saturday, remains the top passer with Sonny Jurgensen of Wash ington No. 2. The scoring race goes down to the wire. Bruce Gossett of Los Angeles and Danny Villanueva of Dallas, a pair of field goal kickers, are tied for the lead with 102 points. Charlie Gogo- lak, whose kick gave Washington a victory over Dallas last week, is next with 101 points. Then comes Dan Reeves, Dallas running back, with 96 on 16 touchdowns. Dave Lee of Baltimore still leads the punters with an average og 46.8 yards. St. Louis hogs the kick re turns honors. Johhny Roland is the punt return leader with an average of 11.1 and Roy Shivers, also of the Cards has a 29.8 aver age on kickoff runbacks. Larry Wilson of St. Louis still has the most interceptions, nine. Bobby Mitchell Is Good Guy Again By TOM SEPPY AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON CP) — Wash ington flanker Bobby Mitchell apparently is back on coach Otto Graham’s Good Guy list. After the Redskins’ 34-31 vic tory over Dallas, in which Mit chell scored on an 11-yard touch down pass, Graham went out of the way to end speculation that he is disenchanted with Mitchell. Graham said emphatically the 31-year-old flanker is not avail able for trade and voiced doubt that he would retire at the end of the season. I, ;■ May all the days of your Christmas season be bright with Peace and Happiness. SUA,fPE€£ Uvuv£0>frv &»*£££& Beasley, Ponies In 96-74 Victory DALLAS, Tex. CP> — Charles Beasley flipped in 24 points to lead Southern Methodist to an easy 96-74 basketball victory over the touring Mexico Oylm- pic team Wednesday night. After the first few minutes Mexico never led and was able to pull within three points only twice during the game. Denny Holman, with 20 points, back up Beasley’s hot shooting. Arturo Guerrero, who scored repeatedly from outside, led the Mexicans with 20 points. A technical foul was called on the Mexico coach, Lester Lane, who kicked his sideline chair in disgust at a ruling of the offi cials. The crowd booed and the announced had to ask, “Please be better sportsmen and quit throwing ice on the court.” Landry Predicts Tough Game With Giants Sunday DALLAS, Tex. CP> — Coach Tom Landry of the Dallas Cow boys, not paying any attention to the odds, says New York has no trouble scoring, has improv ed the past couple of weeks and that he expects a tough game when the Cowboys close the re gular season against the Giants at New York Sunday. “It’s the last game for them, they have nothing to lose and they’ll be relaxed,” said Landry at his weekly news conference Wednesday when he discussed Dallas’ chances of winning the Eastern Conference title of the National Football League. Dallas leads by a game and won’t have to win over New York should Cleveland beat the second place St. Louis Cardinals Saturday. But a St. Louis tri umph would leave Dallas with the option of either tying or win ning over New York to prevent a playoff Christmas Day. “If we start winning in terms of Cleveland winning it could be a big psychological disadvan tage,” he declared. “However, my team isn’t thinking along this line; it’s thinking only of beating New York Sunday.” Landry anticipated some big changes on defense from New York, although he said he had been working on a 4-3 and un dershift, the types of defense the Giants have been using up to now. “You can’t figure out what any team will do and have to go along with their customary style,” he explained. He said he was going to New York prepared for all emergen cies. “A frozen field is quite likely this time of the year in New York,” said the Cowboys coach, who once was defensive coach of the Giants. “An icy field favors the offense over the defense.” Landry said the club was free of injuries except for a rib dis location for George Andrie, start ing defensive end. But he will be ready to play, Landry added. Houston Defeats Centenary, 97-66 HOUSTON (AP) — Ninth-rank ed Houston, held to a 36-36 dead lock at the half of Centenary, broke the games open in the second period with 61 points to whip the Louisiana team 97-66 in the Bluebonnet Basketball Classic. Elvin Hayes, 6-8 junior, scored 43 points for Houtson as the Cougars found the range in the final 20 minutes and outscored Centenary 61-30. Hayes opened the second half with three straight points. Mel vin Bell followed with a pair of jump shots, and Houston moved quickly to a 10-point lead. 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