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CROSS PENS m or tali Mgraai, ...1.2S ■••US .$us SINCE 1S4S Writing Instruments in 14 Karat Gold Filled. Pen or Pencil $15.00 Set $30.00 Embrey’s Jewelry See our Selection of Aggie Sweetheart Rings 415 University Or. College Station 9:00-5:30 Mon.-Sat. First player ever THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1975 Page 7 Griffin collects second Heisman Associated Press NEW YORK — Ohio State’s Ar chie Griffin, major college football’s first 5,000-yard runner, overcame his lack of size, survived the taunts of 11 teams determined to ring his bell and became the first two-time win ner of the coveted Heisman Trophy Tuesday. “There was a lot of pressure this year,” the 5-foot-9, 184-pound senior tailback said after becoming the first Heisman repeater, succeed ing where four others failed — Ar my’s Doc Blanchard, Doak Walker of Southern Methodist, Ohio State’s Vic Janowicz and Navy’s Roger Staubach. “Being tagged the Heisman win ner, naturally guys on other teams were after me more this year. They all tackled me clean, but they might say a few things like, ‘Get up, Heis man Trophy-winner.’ ” Griffin, who has rushed for 5,176 yards in four seasons, will wind up his collegiate career in a fourth con secutive Rose Bowl against UCLA. He captured the 1975 Heisman by a landslide over running backs Chuck Muncie of California and Ricky Bell of Southern Cal. Griffin received 454 first-place ballots, 167 seconds and 104 thirds from 888 sports writers and broadcasters ac ross the country. On a 3-2-1 basis, that amounted to 1,800 points. Mun cie (145-104-87) received 730 points to 708 for Bell (70-169-160). Rounding out the top 10 finishers were running backs Tony Dorsett of Pitt, Joe Washington of Oklahoma and Jimmy DuBose of Florida, quar terback John Sciarra of UCLA, run ning back Gordon Bell of Michigan, defensive tackle Leroy Selmon of Oklahoma and quarterback Gene Swick of Toledo. Griffin carried four of the coun try’s five sections — East, South, Midwest and Southwest — finishing behind Muncie in the Far West. “I really tried not to think about the Heisman all year but I couldn’t really get it off my mind a whole lot because people kept reminding me about it,” Griffin said. “I got it off my mind just enough because I had a job to do every Saturday. “In a way, it was a relief to get out on the field on Saturday even though I was getting hit pretty hard and I’d be banged up half the week. The hitting was a lot harder this year. It was rough out there.” Griffin rushed for more than 100 yards almost every Saturday starting with his sophomore year. He was stopped short in last season’s Rose Bowl against Southern Cal, but his regular-season streak of 100-yard games reached a record 31 before Michigan held him to 46 in the 1975 finale. In winning the 1974 Heisman over Southern Cal’s Anthony Davis by 1,920 points to 819, Griffin rushed 236 times for 1,062 yards. This sea son, he carried 245 times for 1,357 yards. “I think I helped the team more this year because my blocking and pass-catching was better,” Griffin said. “We didn’t run into dirty football, but they just loved to tackle him,” said Coach Woody Hayes, who ac companied hometown hero Griffin from Columbus, Ohio, to New York for Tuesday’s announcement. The matched pair of Heismans will look nice on the Griffin mantelpiece, but Archie said he’d “trade both of them for the national championship. That’s been th$ goal of our team since I was a freshman. This is the closest now we’ve ever come. People think of the national championship as more of a team thing than the Heis man Trophy. “But the Heisman is a team trophy, a team award. No matter how good a back is, you can’t do any thing without the other backs and the line blocking for you and the de fense getting you the ball. Our offen sive line meant everything to me. It was the best line I played behind in four years.” “A lot of people told me I was too small to play at Ohio State, ” Griffin recalled. “But my high school coach told me it’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog that counts. That really stuck with me.” Texas A&M creeps forward on Buckeyes Associated Press Ohio State is the 1975 regular- season champion of college football. The Buckeyes, who completed a perfect 11-0 season a week ago and will meet UCLA in the Rose Bowl, RUMP U.S.D.A. CHOICE _ ___ BONE . _ BEEF ! N . LB ROUND STEAK LEAN ft TENDER CUBE STEAK I SKAGGS-ALBERTSOI CHEESE ECKRICH, FULLY CO SMOKED SAUSAGE BOOTHS, JUST HEAT AND SERVE 1FISH STICKS oz. PKG ROUND U.S.D.A. CHOICE BEEF. FULL CUT BICENTENNIAL GLASS LIMITED EDITION BICENTENNIAL GLASS FROM THE HERITAGE COLLECTOR SERIES PRESENTED BY THE COCA-COLA COM PANY. COLLECT YOUR SET OF 8. 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The Texas Aggies ran their re cord to 10-0 with one game remain ing with a 20-10 triumph over Texas and received seven first-place votes and 1,038 points. Last week, the Ag gies trailed 1,168-1,010. Oklahoma, 10-1 and bound for the Orange Bowl, received the other first-place vote and 890 points. Alabama ran its record to 10-1 by blanking Auburn 28-0 and earned 761 points. The final poll to determine the 1975 champion will be taken follow ing the bowl games. By losing to Texas A&M, the Texas Longhorns dropped from fifth place to ninth. That permitted Michigan, Nebraska and Arizona State to move up one position apiece to fifth, sixth and seventh places. Michigan and Nebraska finished up a week ago but Arizona State, 11-0, nailed down the Western Athletic Conference crown and a berth in the Fiesta Bowl by shading Arizona 24-21. THE AP TOP TWENTY Here are the Top Twenty teams in The Associated Press college football poll with first-place votes in parentheses, season records and total points. 1. Ohio St. (50) 2. Texas A&M (7) 3. Oklahoma (1) 4. Alabama 5. Michigan 6. Nebraska 7. Arizona St. 8. Penn St. Texas Pitt 11-0-0 10-0-0 10-1-0 0-1-0 8-1-2 10-1-0 11-0-0 9-2-0 9-2-0 9-2-0 (SSl IM13 j ^^^=846-6/ I4 & 84671 IS 1=^ UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER CINEMA I It IF YOU LIKED “YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN” YOU’LL LOVE DAILY AT “OLDDRACULA” 7:45 & 9:30 STARTS SC 'A BOY & HIS DOG” BAR ETTA IS “WILLIE BOY” TIMES FOR THE "EBEL INDIAN 'WILLIE BOY" ROBERT REDFORD IS THE LAWMAN! DAILY AT 7:30 & 9:25