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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1975
Needs two TD passes
Tarkenton nears record
Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Pro
fessional football s version of the
Georgia Peach is packing up all of
the game’s passing records for
shipment to his home state, where
many of baseball’s hitting records al
ready are enshrined.
Francis Asbury Tarkenton needs
only two touchdown passes to sur
pass the record of 290 held by John
Unitas. That record could fall by
next Sunday during Minnesota’s
game at Detroit.
The 35-year-old minister’s son
from Athens, Ga., throws the way
the original Georgia Peach, Ty
Cobb, used to hit.
“Francis is going to set some rec
ords that never will be broken, ” says
Unitas, who spent 18 years estab-
lishine his brilliant totals.
Tarkenton already has surpassed
Unitas’ completions mark by 58 this
season, while establishing a Min
nesota record of 230 completions in
a season with two games remaining.
He has passed for 2,622 yards and
23 touchdowns, while being inter
cepted 11 times in 355 attempts.
With 32 more passing attempts —
a mark he seems certain to reach in
the next two games — Tarkenton
will have thrown more passes than
anyone else. He remains 1,771
yards shy of Unitas’ lifetime
standard of 40,239 yards passing.
Minnesota Coach Bud Grant says
Tarkenton’s 15th pro season is his
best. “Francis is setting career rec
ords while he is at the very top of his
profession,” he said. “He has all the
qualities of greatness and en
thusiasm, but most important is his
durability. Francis is always ready.”
Tarkenton never has missed an
NFL game because of an injury. He
still plays with the exuberance of a
21-year-old, which he was when he
passed for 1,997 yards and 18
touchdowns in his rookie season.
After six stormy years under
Coach Norm Van Brocklin at Min
nesota, Tarkenton asked to be
traded and spent five seasons with
the New York Giants before being
reacquired by the Vikings in 1972.
“Football is a lot more fun when
you’re on a winning team,” said
Tarkenton.
Tarkenton, rapped as a scrambler
in his early years, has given respec
tability to that frenetic activity.
Grant likes to say Tarkenton’s elu
sive maneuvers “buy time” for the
quarterback and the receivers.
Tarkenton also has rushed for
more yards than any other quarter
back in the game s history, with
3,627 yards on 608 carries. That av
erages just less than six yards per
run.
Tarkenton still has one year re
maining on his present contract with
Minnesota, and physically appears
capable of playing for a number of
seasons after that.
“I want to play as long as I’m
healthy and have the right attitude
about the game,” said Tarkenton.
“And I still get excited about this
game. ”
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SWC revises television
schedule for UH entry
Associated Press
DALLAS — The Southwest Con
ference has announced a change in
the first game of its 1976 televised
basketball schedule, Houston mak
ing its SWC debut Tuesday, Jan. 6,
against Arkansas at Fayetteville.
The telecast will start at 8 p.m. with
tipoff at 8:10.
The game was originally
scheduled for a night earlier, but
was postponed due to a network
program in which President Ford
will participate at the same time on
Jan. 5.
SMU and TCU will move up their
conference opener from that Tues
day night to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.
5 at TCU’s Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
The Jan. 6 opener is one of three
games scheduled for weeknight
prime-time airing as Eddie Barker
and Associates of Dallas will pro
duce the SWC televised package
this season for the first time. Frank
Gleiber will handle the play-by-play
as ten regular-season games and
four during the first SWC Post Sea
son Tournament will be aired.
Also for the first time, five games
will be selected for airing during the
course of the season to insure that
viewers will have the opportunity to
see games involving champion con
tenders.
The 1976 SWC basketball televi
sion schedule:
Tuesday, Jan. 6-Houston at Ar
kansas, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 10-Texas at SMU,
2 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 17-Texas A&M at
Texas Tech, 3 p.m.
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