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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1973 Page 9 sman; hind bronze statuette intf back. >tti, a law enforcem ctions major at i shifted to tailbai responded by gainj Is. ,ter how bad things [ rno, “you’ll always ball gatne. That'sd st player I’ve every e’s faster than Mil >ly faster over 40yai is. He runs a 4.6 |j;| ■ssiiiK his feelings la inouncement whyCiy[ is a more desenir ban John Hicks, 0h| ,’o-time All-Amerit ickle, Paterno refers State’s final regalr) ,est against Pitt ions trailed 13-31 it rallied in theiinilj ; with Capelletti ? strong running, (uldn’t have wontkl us," Paterno «| dn’t have gotten Pit ; Cappy did.” iugar Bowl for National Title No. 1 Alabama Clashes With No. 3 Notre Damo By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Sugar Bowl showdown 4ew Year’s Eve will feature the |wo highest-ranking teams eligi ble for post-season play—No. 1 Uabama and No. 3 Notre Dame. Notre Dame vaulted past Ohio State and Michigan into third blace behind Alabama and Okla homa, ineligible for a bowl game, jn The Associated Press poll Tuesday. The winner of the Sugar Bowl game probably will be national |champion. There will be a final poll after the bowl games. Alabama, which ended an 11-0 regular season by beating Au- Iburn 35-0 last Saturday, got 34 Ifirst-place votes and 1,090 points in balloting by a nationwide pan el of sports writers and broad casters. Oklahoma, ineligible for a bowl appearance because of recruiting violations, received 17 first-place votes and 1,023 points after whip ping Oklahoma State 45-18 for a 10-0-1 final record. Notre Dame received two first- place votes and 810 points. The Fighting Irish finished the reg ular season 10-0, unbeaten and untied for the first time since 1949. Ohio State, 9-0-1 got two first- place votes and 799 points for fourth place, and was followed by Michigan, 10-0-1, with one first-place ballot and 780 points and Penn State, 11-0, with three first-place votes and 679 points. Ohio State will play No. 7 Southern California in the Rose Bowl while Penn State will go to the Orange Bowl to face Loui siana State, which was upset 14-0 by Tulane and dropped from eighth to 13th. The Top Twenty, with first- place votes in parentheses, season records and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14- 12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1: SHOP Alabama (34) Oklahoma (16) Notre Dame (2) Ohio St. (2) Michigan (1) Penn St. (3) So. Calif. Texas UCLA Ariz. St. Texas Tech Nebraska La. State Houston Miami, O. N. Car. St. Tulane Maryland Kansas Tenn. 11-0-0 10-0-1 10-0-0 9-0-1 10-0-1 11-0-0 9-1-1 8-2-0 9-2-0 10-1-0 10-1-0 8-2-1 9-2-0 10-1-0 10-0-0 8- 3-0 9- 2-0 8-3-0 7- 3-1 8- 3-0 ofner II Coach as drafted No. 11 d Browns before Ikl and spent the null as a member of tkl sive backfield befoul r the 1963 season. *n in Grapevine, Teil -sport letterman ill High School in Fcit[ married the forael - of Fort Worth. Trials nr TWS Sunday, V in autocross i!| ?nd at Texas Won:| >y the Texas AiSil ’lub, the autocroa| egistration at'1:511 y morning followkj inspection at! ■e runs at 77 a. u | 11 begin Sunday jl| fee is $10 fore 515 for other pa e technical inspet j 3 to the cost and 11 rge will be added fees if pre-regb filed. ting about 65 cars| • the trials,” ember, said. 11 be taken on the! rtion of the track .nd models of cars[ welcomed for cookin' and calenn country style BAR-BO Beef, pork, ribs and sausage — not too smoky, not to fat and not too fancy. And all the fixin’s. Tuesday nights after 5:00 the featured dish is chicken ’n dumplin’s. You get a pot of juicy chicken, plenty of plump, fluffy dumplin’s and generous slabs of homemade cornbread for soppin’. Barbecue nearly made the Conlee boys famous in these parts. And they^re caterin’ now, too. 3C BAS-B-QUE Open 11 to 9:30 every day except Monday across the tracks/nearly downtown Bryan sked to use elmet and, if the | tible, have a ace. is participants to I loline due to tlie [ on Sunday supply of 100 urchased by the I those needing it | lollege Station. nformation, callj Germyn at 822- racemaster Steve 7. □a 65c 65c 11s 65c 65c Price LOUPOTS books & britches WE’VE GOT WHAT YOU NEED IN FASHIONABLE CLOTHING AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORD. DROP IN AND SEE OUR NEW FALL MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY. JEANS & KNITS FOR HIM & HER Office LOUPOT’S BOOKS AND BRITCHES, THE NORTH GATE ACROSS FROM THE POST OFFICE Shop now for X-mas and the holiday season! evin S orner By KEVIN COFFEY, Sports Editor It was a very disappointing year for Southwest Conference football. In fact, it was a darn right poor year. Every team in the conference had more than its share of trouble. Only Rice and Texas were at all pleased with where they finished. Not only was it an all around bad year, the SWC must have set some kind of record for the greatest number of bad football teams. If Rice can finish third with the poor excuse of a team they had, well that doesn’t speak well for the conference. The standings ended like this: CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W L T Pet. W L T Pet. Texas 7 0 0 1.000 Texas Tech 10 1 0 .909 Texas Tech 6 1 0 .857 Houston 9 1 0 .900 Rice 4 3 0 .571 Texas 8 2 0 .800 Arkansas 3 3 1 .500 SMU 6 4 1 .590 SMU 3 3 1 .500 Arkansas 5 5 1 .500 Texas A&M 3 4 0 .429 Rice 5 6 0 .455 TCU 1 6 0 .143 Texas A&M 5 6 0 .455 Baylor 0 7 0 .000 TCU 3 8 0 .273 Baylor 2 9 0 .182 Texas’ first place finish didn’t surprise anyone. They’ve pulled that trick six straight years now. But the ’Horns were picked by Sports Illustrated and tons of writers to battle for the national championship. Texas will be lucky to finish in the top 10. Oklahoma embarassed the Longhorns on national television and Miami ended all big hopes on opening day. Texas Tech had a great season for a second place team. Except for a few stupid mistakes against Darrell Royal and his boys, perhaps the Red Raiders would be in Dallas on New Year’s. The Cotton Bowl is no gem this year, but Tech thought it might get there. A Gator Bowl berth is in line and Jim Carlen and staff have plump 10-year contracts so it can’t be all bad. Second place is, well, second place. Rice stunk! They had no offense to go with a respectable defense. A great punter and lady luck kept the Owls from the cellar. Luck or not, third place is better than anyone thought the Owls capable of and coach A1 Conover gets my vote as SWC Coach of the Year. He worked miracles with mullets. Arkansas blew a chance to go bowling when they were tied by SMU. Arkansas is a young team, but it had hopes for seven wins this year. Against the Aggies it was anything but impressive and fouled up a possible good year by losing two of the last three with one tie. SMU folded in mid-season. Just flat choked. The Mustangs just couldn’t win the big games losing to Tech, Texas and the Ags in succession. It seemed they have the bosses but the Ponies never lived up to their pre-season expectations. The Aggies, like Arkansas, are a team of the future, but they should have won seven games. Fumbles, interceptions and general inconsistency hurt the team all season. At times A&M looked like a champ and at other times they looked like chumps. This Jeckle-Hyde syndrome will have to stop if A&M is to battle Texas for the Crown next year. TCU lost just about everything, including coach Billy Tohill. Injuries took their toll on the Frogs, but a 1-6 record in conference is bad any way you look at it. Whoever the Frogs nab as new coach will need lots of luck to get their program in competitive shape. Baylor was the surprise of the SWC. Grant Teaff led the Bears from the cellar last year, but somehow they wandered right back. Nothing like home sweet home. The Bears were the worst team defensively in the league. The offense had some punch but not enough to make any difference. The conference as a whole lost a lot of national prestige. There is a good chance no SWC team will make it to the top 10 after the bowl games. Football, the so called “King of Sports,” in the south better get in gear or Baylor just might win the SWC for the first time since 1924. Read Classifieds Daily mm HARRY DISHMAN Sales & Service 603 Texas Ave. C.S. across from campus — 846-3316 CURRENT A CONTEMPORARY DRAMATIC MOTION PICTURE ON THE RETURN OF CHRIST Sound of the Trumpet examines those trends in today's world which seem to point distinctively to the Scriptural event itself. THE ANSWER 501 University Drive Thursday & Friday * Dec. 6 & 7 * 7:30 p.m. Read Classifieds Daily $ 1 Happy Cottage 809 E. 29th Bryan “Where Santa left so many gifts” Handicraft Items, Childrens’ Toys & Dolls, Christmas Decorations including Tree Decorations 29^ up, Musical Paperweights, Musical Jewelry Boxes, Miniature Figu rines, Unusual Jewelry. Come up Texas Avenue past Wyatt’s a few blocks. Turn right on East 29th at City National Bank. 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