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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1974
Horns domination ends?
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Ailing SWC finds cure by winning games
By MARK WEAVER
The big ’tins will always eat the little
tins.’
Darrel Royal
Head Coach
University of Texas
In the past 15 seasons Darrell
Royal s quote on collegiate football
has certainly been true as far as the
Southwest Conference is con
cerned.
Between 1959 and 1973, the Uni
versity of Texas has played the part
of the big ’un, winning 10 confer
ence titles. Arkansas won three ti
tles during that period with South
ern Methodist University and Texas
A&M winning one apiece.
Texas has won a record six confer
ence titles in a row and its domina
tion is beginning to take a toll. Col
lege football attendance rose na
tionally for the twentieth consecu
tive year but the SWC suffered its
worst drop in more than two de
cades.
With attendance dropping 8.32
per cent for the SWC in 1973 and
Texas appearing to have another
winner with the likes of All-
American Roosevelt Leaks in its
backfield, the conference’s prob
lems seemed insurmountable.
Was the SWC seeing one of its
last seasons? If Texas continued to
dominate and other conference
schools continued to provide little
competition, it would be conceiva
ble that the SWC was heading for a
shakeup.
But the 1973 season brought a
new hero into the picture. Texas
Tech lost only one game and pre
vailed in its Gator Bowl battle
against Tennessee 28-19. Unfortu
nately for Tech, its single loss was to
Texas to the tune of 28-12 and kept
them out of the Cotton Bowl.
At last some competition was
brewing for Texas, who had grown
from a big un into a giant, continu
ing to “eat the little uns. ” But some
thing happened between 1973 and
1974 to those little teams of the
SWC.
Pre-season polls came out for
1974 and most predicted Texas to
repeat as conference champion. Ar
kansas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech
were predicted near the top with
SMU, Rice, Baylor and TCU all
near the bottom.
The season began and after the
first couple of weeks there was a
noticeable change in SWC play. Ar
kansas beat fifth ranked USC 22-7
and Baylor played surprisingly well
in their 20-11 loss to the Sooners of
Oklahoma.
The SWC’s non-conference mark
was 18-12-2, an improvement over
last year’s 14-12 record against
non-conference teams. But one of
the biggest shockers came in the
middle of pre-conference play.
The Red Raiders of Texas Tech
ran over the big ’un of the SWC,
whipping the Longhorns soundly
26-3. And suddenly there was new
feeling in the SWC. Hope.
As the season progressed, SWC
teams were in and out of the top
twenty polls. After the opening win
of 24-0 against Clemson, the Texas
Aggies never dropped out of the top
20, dipping in and out of the top 10
rankings.
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play, three conference teams are
ranked in the top 20. Texas is ranked
17 after losing to Texas Tech and
then to Baylor 34-24. The dark
horse of the SWC, Baylor, came on
to beat Oklahoma State 31-14 in
pre-conference play and never
slowed down after that.
A&M is ranked 8 in the top 20 and
tied for the conference lead with
Baylor. After beating Clemson, the
Ags then proved they were conten
ders for the SWC title with a 21-14
victory over sixth ranked LSU in the
Tiger Den.
Is the Southwest Conference
dying? The way it looks this season,
the answer is no. There has been
what seems to be a severe coma dur
ing the past years, but most of the
teams have been revived. TCU and
Rice are another story.
And with winning seasons, atten
dance has jumped after last year’s
big drop. Attendance for borne
games went over the 1.5 million
mark last weekend for the tenth
straight year as the total and average
attendance records are threatened.
Saturday s crowds pushed the
season’s total to 1,548,813 after 40
home dates. Five games remain as
SWC schools near the record 1.75
million set in 1972. Crowds are up
7.7 per cent over last season and the
average attendance of 38,720 is just
320 below the per-game record set
in 1968.
Arkansas, Texas A&M and TCU
all ended home seasons last Satur
day with increases over last season.
Arkansas drew 44,544 per game, up
7.5 per cent over last year and
played before 96.1 percent of capac
ity at its Little Rock and Fayetteville
sites.
The Aggies have improved their
attendance 37.9 per cent since
1970. This year they have averaged
43,867, or 91.4 per cent of its capac
ity. TCU’s average attendance was
21,528, up 7 per cent over last year
and 46.8 per cent of capacity.
For the first time in its history the
SWC appears certain to have at least
four schools finish the season with
average attendance of more than
40,000 per game. Arkansas and
A&M have already attained that fig
ure, Texas is at 57,087 with one to
go. Tech is at 42,440 with one left
and Baylor is at 39,900 with one re
maining.
With attendance up and Tea
not dominating as they have inti*
past, the SWC is completely re
vived, right? Wrong. Texas maysl
be headed to the Cotton Bowl,
The final week of SWC play las
arrived and the team goingtolle
Cotton Bowl depends entirely«
the outcome of the Tein
A&M-Texas game. If A&M wins
they will go to Dallas and the Horn
will go to the Gator Bowl. IftheAp
lose Texas goes to the Gator Bod
and Baylor goes to the Cotton Boal
So Texas, as usual, is in anotlw
good situation. The Gator Bowl kill
is theirs, win or lose to A&M. WMe
the big ’uns aren’t eating the
uns as they have in the past,Tens
is back up near the top. As usual
Rod
Speer
Alan
Killingsworth
Steve
Gray
Mark
Weaver
Gerald
Olivier
T.C.
Gallucci
Tony
Gallucci
Will
Anderson
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Last Week
Season
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This Week's Picker: Herb Holland. Sports editor of The Daily Texan, UT
1974 seniors have seen many changes
(Continued from page 5)
servative as when we came here.
The school cares more about foot
ball, mainly because we are win
ning. The school is getting a lot of
recognition,’’ said Seeker.
While there has been an increase
in women, Daniels notices the in
crease in blacks over last year, when
he transferred here.
Most of them wouldn’t change
anything at A&M. The traditions
are one of the reasons some of them
came arid they wouldn’t want to see
them changed. But a few did think
of a few minor changes they felt
would improve a good thing.
Stratton would like to see better
food at Sbisa, the rule about having
liquor in your room dropped and
the hassle about moving off campus
changed.
Hulin would like to have taken
himself out two seconds earlier in
the LSU game.
Jerry Honore would like to see
the girls stay out of the Corps. “I’d
hate to see an old tradition go down
the drain,” he said.
Gray would like to see more
blacks recruited while McCrumbly
would like to see more black girls in
particular recruited. They felt this
would help the campus social life of
blacks.
Pumphrey would like to see you
choose your own professor.
The accomplishments they have
made vary from person to person.
But they are all proud of the fact
they are going to graduate from
A&M. A lot of them, while they may
not be starters, are glad they stuck it
out and reaped the benefits of a
winning team. They all said they
have contributed in some way in
helping turn A&M around.
They have had many high and low
points in this football season. Some
of the high points picked out were
the Tech game on national televi
sion, the LSU game, the Baylor
game and the Rice game.
Low points most commonly
picked out were the SMU and Kan
sas games; the SMU game in par
ticular. But overall they are all glad
it is a winning season.
What makes them proud to go out
a winner is that they are the last of
the. Stallings era except for
McCrumbly, Gray and Daniels who
were recruited by Bellard.
While most of them are not star
ters, they all say that leadership is
an important aspect of this senior
class.
“Everybody has stayed in there
and kept the right attitude, said
Lamp. “The ones that have stuck it
out have helped the program.
It was also pointed out that of the
55 recruited by Stallings only 17
remain. "We proved people
wrong,” Seeker said. “By the time
we were seniors, people thought
two might he starting out of this
group. We have quite a few senior
starters. Our year was to have been
one of the lowest in recruits.
Daniels said, this season the
change has occurred, we want to go
out winners. We are willing to go all
out for it.
Most of these seniors have been
here three years and in that time
have tasted defeat at the hands of
Texas even- year. Why should this
year be any different?
“It’s different this year,” Farrell
said “Until this week we hadn’t
beat Rice when I was here. I’d hate
to go out of here without beating
one team. We have the material and
for four years this game proves us. ’’
Also mentioned was the fact that
this year A&M is not just playing
Texas as a rival but for all the SWC
marbles. “If you don’t get tip for a
game like this, you never will,’’
Haddox said.
But now they must begin to
change their emphasis to the future
and answer the question of what
they are going to do.
Haddox, Daniels, Trahan,
Seeker, Gray and McCrumbly
would like to have a chance in the
pros. The other choices vary fa*
coaching, grad school, business,
federal probation, law school, ae
counting and the unknowns.
Playing college ball has provent
a lot of them that they can compete
Others say that getting the scholar
ship has made them abletogeti
degree. It also helped themestah
lish lifetime friends and matured
gether.
“It helped me to gain experience
in meeting people and gainint
traveling experience, Gray said
Bellard described the seniorclass
in this way, "It is a great groupol,
young men. They have provided)),,
awful lot of devotion and dedication
They have shown lots ofleadership
The staff and everyone share i«
great respect with these fellows
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