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fied member of the Aggie defense and Dan Peoples (91) pursue during controlled scrim
mage last week, as the Aggies continued to prepare for their season’s opener Saturday
against the Wheatshockers of Wichita State University. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
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By BILL O’CONNOR
Battalion Sports Writer
The six Southwest Conference
teams that chose to play an extra
eleventh game allowed them by
the NCAA this year will open
their seasons this weekend. The
Universtiy of Texas at Austin
and Rice University, the only two
conference teams who chose not
to play the extra game, will not
start their seasons until Sept. 19.
Besides the Texas A&M-Wichita
State game, Baylor will play Mis
souri, SMU will play Oklahoma,
Texas Tech will play Tulane,
TCU will play the University of
Texas at Arlington (UTA), and
Arkansas will host Stanford.
Baylor will play Missouri in
their first meeting ever, with
Missouri expected to come out on
top. Unless Baylor can produce
a miracle, and experience has
been the teacher to their thirty
returning lettermen, (returning
from a 0-10 season). They should
be easy pickings for the Missouri
Tigers who are off from a 9-2
season with 25 returning letter-
men.
“We’ve had a No. 1 guy at
Missouri as far back as I can
remember,” Coach Dan Devine
said, “that is not the case this
year.”
Missouri has been picked by
many critics as the number one
contender for the Big Eight Con
ference crown. Missouri will play
one of two new quarterbacks this
year, either Chuck Roper or Mike
Farmer, neither which have let-
Arkansas, USC
favored to win
NEW YORK UP) — Heisman
Trophy candidate Jim Plunkett of
Stanford makes his season’s debut
against an Arkansas team that
came within a finger-tip of win
ning the national championship
in 1969.
That’s an indication of the
toughness of the opening games
on the college schedule.
Arkansas, Southern California,
Oklahoma and Missouri should
get away to fast starts.
Arkansas 28, Stanford 18: pass
er Bill Montgomery and runner
Bill Burnett should offset the
great Plunkett.
Southern California 23, Ala
bama 13: Bear Bryant's “pore
little boys” just don’t have the
size but Fristle makes it closer.
tered.
Talent seems to be abundant on
the Missouri bench however, as
these young quarterbacks beat
their own second team in a recent
scrimmage by a score of 63-7.
Joe Moore of Missouri seems to
be the man Baylor must contain
to cage the Tigers, as Moore
scrambled 1312 yards in 260
carries, including 5 touchdowns
last season.
Game time is 8:00 p.m., Friday
night in St. Louis.
SMU faces Oklahoma in the
fourth game of what has proved
to be an interesting series over
the years. In 1925, SMU lost to
OU by a 9-7 score, tied in 1939
with a 7-7, and beat them 28-27
in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl of
1968.
Chuck Hixson of SMU handled
the ball in that classic when he
was a sophomore. This year,
Hixson returns as a senior to
attempt a repeat performance.
Hixson’s 1969 seson shows him to
be one of the best in the game,
completing 217 of 362 pass at
tempts for 2,313 yards. Return
ing with Hixson is one of his
favorite targets, Ken Fleming,
whose two-year record is a stun
ning 94 receptions for 1,048 yards
and 10 touchdowns.
Hixson needs only 10 more com
pletions to break the all time
NCAA record.
Coach Hayden Fry believes
SMU’s biggest worry is the speed
of Oklahoma, which he qualifies
by saying they have as much
speed as any SMU will play this
year.
A crowd of 55-60,000 is ex
pected to be on hand for the kick
off Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in
Dallas.
A fired-up Red Raider squad
will meet the Tulane Green Wave
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on the
astroturf at Texas Tech’s Jones
Stadium. Tulane is returning
from a 3-7 season with 43 of 53
lettermen and finding a tough
veteran Tech team returning from
a 5-5 season with their triple
option offense. The Raiders, a
well balanced team with a young
coach have set their conference
aims high, and this one should be
an excellent preview of the per
formance the rest of the confer
ence can expect for the season.
The game probably most up for
grabs this weekend should prove
to be the TCU-UTA game in Ft.
Worth Saturday night. Appear
ing will be two very young teams
peppered with a few outstanding
veterans. They both seem tough,
and will no doubt be looking for
an early season win which has
sent many young teams to the top
of the conferences. The Frogs are
returning with quarterback Steve
Judy who broke or tied 12 records
in his 1969 season, including:
most yards total offense for a ten
game season (2019), most yards
passing (1677), and most passes
completed (144). Judy is one to
watch the season as he takes the
helm of the fresh talent TCU will
field.
Arkansas hosts the Stanford
Indians in Little Rock Saturday,
in what should prove to be an
other very interesting “game of
the week.” Stanford, narrowly
missing out on a chance in last
year’s Rose Bowl, and turning out
a 7-2-1 season, averaged 196 yards
rushing per game, and an offense
total of 4,946 yards. Stanford is
returning a record 34 lettermen
this year including All-America
quarterback Jim Plunkett. An
other man to watch is tight end
Bob Moore, who made 38 recep
tions last year for 476 yards. As
per usual, in an Arkansas game,
you will see an outstanding team
on a field where anything can
happen.
The game will be the opening
broadcast of the season for the
NCAA on TV with the kickoff
slated for 5:05 p.m.
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