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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1975
Aggies? A $64,000 question
By DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
What will the Aggtes do in 1975?
■ Talk about a $64,000 question,
first of all there are a bunch of diffe
rent kinds of Aggies. I will be cover-
L three kinds this year. Football
A g g ies, Basketball Aggies and
laseball Aggies.
All three had super seasons last
ear. The Football Aggies went 8-3.
’he Basketball and Baseball Aggies
ioth had record seasons. The bas-
fetballers were Southwest Confer
ence Champions and won 20 games
br the first time in the school’s his-
or y. They finished 20-7. The
jaseballers also set a school record,
vinning over 30 games for the first
ime ever. They ended up 32-10.
This is where the differences be
gin. The basketballers and basebal-
lers went to the NCAA playoffs, the
footballers stayed home.
This season the footballers are
loaded with senior talent while the
other two will be loaded with new
faces.
As I have been saying all summer
the football team will win. Week
before last I predicted a perfect sea
son, I could be wrong but I don’t
think so.
The basketballers will be young.
They will get stronger as the season
progresses and have to be consi
dered a threat to repeat as the SWC
representative to the NCAA
playoffs.
This will be the first year of the
SWC post season tournament. The
tourney will not decide the confer
ence champion just the playoff rep
resentative. The conference champ
ion will be decided like always, the
leader at the end of the round-robin
schedule.
Another new addition to SWC
basketball will be the entrance of
the University of Houston into
championship play. That alone
should make the season interesting,
at least cause the rekindling of some
old rivalries.
I think that the tourney will be in
the Aggies’ favor, for that matter all
young teams. Any young team gets
stronger as the season passes and
the tourney gives each team an
equal chance until the last week of
the season.
The baseballers are in the same
shape. They will be spending the
early season finding the right com
bination of new faces, with the loss
of six starters.
Coach Tom Chandler’s Aggies
will be strong in pitching but will be
more of a hit-and-run, take advan
tage of the other guy’s mistake type
team. They won’t be the big inning
team that they have been in the
past.
All-in-all it looks like another
good year at Aggieland. Last year
the combined record of these three
sports was 60-20. The three were
really bullies at home where they
totaled a 33-5 record.
Predicting is a dangerous busi
ness. People who do it are seldom
right. It’s a little early to say exactly
how the basketballers and basebal
lers will do this year but football is
on us. You’ve got my prediction for
the football season. I hope it’s right,
but right or not the season will go
on. Win, lose or draw, like it or not.
Next Year is Here.
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in your '
Aggie Ring . . .
—the final
touch.
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TCU poll predicts Aggie crown
A mere score and three years ago
-23 for you laymen — Texas A&M
was given top berth in the annual
fCU Poll predicting the potential
Southwest Conference football
tingpin.
To illustrate the value of polls the
\ggies finished a mediocre 2-3-1 in
•onference play and have won only
wo SWC crowns since the Japanese
ttacked Pearl Harbor, By the way,
bis is the same preseason poll that
abbed Baylor to finish last in 1974.
However, the Horned Frog
uessperts may be betting on a
tacked deck as they pulled the Ag
ues’ name out of the hat once more
-the first time since 1942.
Coach Emory Bollard's brawny
rothers from the Brazos copped 80
irst place votes out of the 127
sportswriters polled. Based on a
scale of eight points for first, seven
for second, etc., the Cadets totaled
955.5 points.
Texas was predicted to play the
bridesmaid with 894.5 points and 39
first place votes. Arkansas was
placed as the team to show, captur
ing third with 694.5 points. Waco’s
Miracle Men were cast as fourth
with 644 marks and Texas Tech fol
lowed with 557.
The cellar dwellers include SMU
with 412.5 points, Rice next with
228 and TCU at the bottom of the
barrel with 186. It remains a toss-up
how these three teams will finish.
But at the back of everyone’s mind is
the Bears’ 50-year dream come
true.
In fact, the TCU poll, instituted
in 1934, has been correct only ten
times in its 41 year existence. A&M
has been picked for the top spot
three previous times (1936, 1937
and 1942) and the prognosticators
have yet to be justified.
Here’s what some of the voters
had to say:
Those who picked A&M:
“Temptation was to pick Baylor to
repeat. Temptation resisted. Wait
another 50 years. ’ --- Harold
Scherwitz, San Antonio Light.
“50 years ago the Aggies followed
Baylor to the SWC throne room
and it looks like a cycle may be in
the making.” — James Moody,
Burleson Star.
“I predicted last year that A&M
would win it with David Shipman
at QB. He didn’t take over until
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this spring and so once again I say,
‘ With Shipman at QB A&M will
be not only No. 1 in the SWC but if
someone does something to Ok
lahoma maybe even No. 1 in the
country.” — Bob Wood, KGKL
Radio, San Angelo.
“Inconceivable Aggies can’t win
with talent on hand.” — Jerry
Grisham, Kilgore News Herald.
“Teams in the SWC fall into two
categories this year — A&M and
others.” --- Keith Randell, Waco
Tribune Herald.
“1975 could replace 1939 in Aggie
memories.” — Jerry Wizig, Hous
ton Chronicle.
“This will be one Aggie story the
other SWC teams will not find very
funny.” — Dick Peebles, Houston
Chronicle.
“Next year finally got here. ” — Dan
Cook, San Antonio Express.
“No more 43 seconds over Memo
rial Stadium! These Aggies are no
jokes.” — Salo Otero, Laredo
Times.
If the Aggies fumble this one . . . ”
— Mike Jones, Dallas Morning
News.
If Texas A&M doesn’t win the
SWC war this autumn, you can
play taps for theaggies from now
till dom’s day.” — Terry Holman,
McAllen Monitor.
‘Coach Emory Bellard’s Aggies
lacked a bit of seasoning in ’74, but
the head Aggie chef has spent
some extra time in the A&M
kitchen and the result will be
tougher than a truck stop T-bone. ”
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