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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 20, 1969
THE BATTALION
SWC Means Top Football
Frank Broyles looked like a
pedestrian trapped on the free
way at 5 o’clock when he uttered
the words that thousands of tele
vision viewers may be repeating
this year:
“A 35-point lead just isn’t safe
any more.
The Arkansas coach had just
watched his Razorbacks hold off
SMU, 35-28, in last year’s highly
improbable comeback. Early in
the fourth quarter Arkansas
feasted on a 35-0 lead, but the
Astros Begin
Longest Stand
The longest (and, without the
shadow of a doubt, the most criti
cal) 1969 home stand for the
Houston Astros will find them
playing a dozen games against
five clubs in the Astrodome be
tween Aug. 29 and Sept. 11.
Opposition lines up this way:
—The Pittsburgh Pirates, night
games on Aug. 29-30, plus a day
game Aug. 31.
—The St. Louis Cardinals,
night games on Sept. 1-2.
—The San Francisco Giants,
night games on Sept. 5-6, plus a
day game on Sept. 7.
—The San Diego Padres, night
games on Sept. 8-9.
—And the Los Angeles Dodg
ers, night games on Sept. 10-11.
In addition, there’ll be two big
special added attractions.
The first will be “Bike Night”
on Saturday, Aug. 30, when 25
free bicycles equipped with Good
year’s “Crazy Wheels” will be
given away to lucky youngsters.
The other will be the annual
“Oldtimers Game” on Labor Day
(Monday, Sept. 1).
All the Astros, of course, hope
that the home stand goes a long
way toward solidifying their
dreams of a possible National
League Western Division pen
nant.
With Houston currently play
ing the best late-season ball it
has ever played and with the As
tros enjoying such outstanding
home success (43-20), there is
reason for optimism.
It won’t be an easy home stand,
by any means. All five clubs
coming in for the 12 games have
been playing good ball against
Houston this season. But the As
tros have been improving con
stantly, and expect to make Sep
tember pay off big—especially
when they resume playing
against the Western Division
clubs in the series against the
Giants.
The Astros will have two Sep
tember home stands. The second
one, a short six-gamer, will bring
Cincinnati and Atlanta to the
Astrodome between Sept. 19 and
24.
Bobby Thomson, the man who
hit the most climactic home run
in baseball history, has joined
Roy Campanella and Stan Musial
in the Houston Astros’ annual
Oldtimers Game in the Astro
dome on Monday, Sept. 1.
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This year’s Oldtimers Game
will reunite the 1952 National
League All-Star Team, who will
play the Houston Oldtimers in a
5:30 p.m. game prior to the As-
tros-Cardinals game at 7:30 on
Labor Day.
Thomson’s three-run homer in
the final inning of the 1951 NL
playoff series gave the New York
Giants a 5-4 victory over the
Brooklyn Dodgers and propelled
them into the World Series. “The
Flying Scot” played 15 years in
the majors with the Giants,
Braves, Cubs, Orioles and Red
Sox, finishing with a .270 life
time average and 264 home runs.
Campanella, the ex - Dodger
catcher whose baseball career
was cut short by an automobile
accident, and the great “Stan
The Man” were inducted into
baseball’s Hall of Fame just last
month.
“Campy” was one of the game’s
best catchers for 10 seasons be
fore his tragic accident after the
1957 season. The stocky Campa
nella played his entire major
league career with the Dodgers,
compiling a .276 average with
242 homers.
Musial, of course, is one of the
great players in the history of
the game, owning an impressive
array of career records set dur
ing his 22 distinguished seasons
with the St. Louis Cardinals. A
seven-time NL batting champion,
“The Man” finished up with a
.331 career average and 475 home
runs. He collected 3,630 total hits
and drove in 1,951 runs before re
tiring after the 1963 season.
This year’s Oldtimers Game
will honor retiring National
League President Warren Giles,
who is winding up 50 years in
baseball (exactly half the pro
game’s existence). The 1952 All-
Star Team was the first one dur
ing his tenure as league presi
dent.
Tickets to all these games are
now on sale daily at the Astro
dome, all Foley’s stores in Hous
ton and Pasadena and the Hous
ton Bank and Trust Building.
They also may be ordered by mail
(Tickets, Box 1691, Houston,
77001), and may be charged on
Texaco credit cards.
Mustangs rallied for four quick
touchdowns and threatened twice
more.
That was just one sample of
the biggest offensive season in
Southwest Conference history.
With all eight teams returning
big offensive guns from record
setting performances, 1969 prom
ises to rewrite records that have
not had time to collect a trace of
lint, not to mention a venerable
layer of dust.
And the ’69 season will defi
nitely set a record for being
chronicled by television cameras.
The American Broadcasting
Company (ABC) will feature
SWC teams on eight of its 14
afternoons of televised college
football. A ninth game could be
added to the schedule, since Nov.
15 is the national “wild card”
date—ABC picking the game it
wants to telecast a few days be
forehand.
It marks the heaviest concen
tration of national and regional
television exposure ever by SWC
members and, fortunately for
fans of wide-open football, the
timing could hardly be better.
Four of the eight scheduled
games will be on national televi
sion — Air Force-SMU Sept. 13,
Texas-Oklahoma Oct. 11, Arkan-
sas-Texas Tech Nov. 27, and Ar-
kansas-Texas Dec. 6.
Games scheduled for south
western and other regional tele
casting are Texas - California
Sept. 20, Nebraska-Texas A&M
Sept. 27, Texas Tech-SMU Oct.
25, and Texas A&M-Arkansas
Nov. 1.
Likely pre-season candidates
for the wild-card game are the
Arkansas-SMU and Texas-TCU
games, November 15. Other
games that afternoon currently
appearing to be of top national
interest include Ohio State-Pur-
due, Mississippi-Tennessee and
Oklahoma-Kansas.
SWC representatives bring im
pressive credentials to the tele
casts, both in the field of recent
post-season successes and eye
catching styles of play. Texas,
Arkansas and SMU climaxed the
1968 season with conquests over
highly-ranked teams in the Cot
ton, Sugar and Bluebonnet Bowls,
respectively.
In their 28 conference games
last year, the schools put points
on the scoreboard at the rate of
49.6 an outing.
They ranged from a high of
58.3 points per game for the
Longhorns’ seven games to a low
of 40.4 for Texas A&M and its
opponents. In 17 of the 28 games,
the two schools totaled at least
50 points, in seven they scored 60
or more, and twice they went 70
or better.
If the viewers aren’t dizzy by
the end of this season, the ABC
camera views are sure to be.
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