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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1976 No consistency without Willie ‘Sips turn a pale green By PAUL ARNETT BATT SPORTS EDITOR The line of scrimmage has finally been taken away from the Texas Longhorns. Offensive line coach Willie Zapalac has packed his bags and found a home in pro football, leaving Darrell Royal wishing for consistency in his Wishbone attack. Two weekends of college football have been written in the annals of history. The opening weekend was full of upsets of the major powers, but most settled down this past weekend and once again traversed the road of success . . . ah, but down in Austin Daddy D is still searching for what the other teams have found. Texas has had anything but un limited success against their two opening opponents. The Horns were edged by Boston College 14-13, and survived a scare in Memorial Stadium 17-14 against North Texas State. starts before. They always seem to find themselves, and end up win ning the conference. But this year is different. Thus far Texas has shown no con sistency in their offensive attack. On one set of downs they will show their old form by driving 80 yards on 12 plays for the touchdown, and on the next series fumble the ball on the first handoff. Against North Texas State Texas had no first downs in the second quarter, yet finished the evening with 19. Earl Campbell had 28 yards on eight car ries in the first half, yet ended his evening with 208 yards on 32 car ries. These facts lead up to one simple answer, lack of consistency on the offensive line. For the past 11 years Texas has had that consistency in one Willie Zapalac. The former Aggie fullback coached one of the greatest offensive lines in college football history in 1969. They led the Wishbone attack and were the individuals that made it great. Without them, and the coach that taught them, Texas’ Wishbone would have been broken. problems. But when these are cleared up, his offensive line prob lem will still be around. Zapalac came to Texas in 1964 from Oklahoma State. His coaching duties at Texas were co-head of the Longhorn offense, and offensive line coach. With the introduction of the Wishbone, Zapalac developed blocking patterns to fit the compli cated offense. He worked with it from the ground floor and helped develop Texas’ national cham pionship of 1969. Texas has next week off, before journeying to Houston to play Rice. Royal has two weeks to work with his offense, and had better hope his defense comes to play. Rice’s quar terback, Tommy Kramer, com pleted 28 passes for 319 yards against Utah. Zapalac has now moved on to the pros, leaving behind a very worried Darrell Royal. His team has not looked outstanding in their first two games. Boston College has a good ball club, but North Texas State can be described only as fair at best. Be sides the problem of consistency, Royal has had quarterbacking prob lems, injury problems and morale Amongst all this turmoil. Royal has one consolation this year and that is his schedule. Last year Royal would be playing Tech next weekend followed by Oklahoma and Arkansas. With the way his team has played this year, he would be lucky if his team came away with one victory. As it turns out the tough games are weeks away and that is the only prayer that has been answered for Coach Royal and his Longhorns. c \y:q RIBEYE STEAK SPECIAL $"J 99 Steaks & Seafood 6 oz. Ribeye Steak Dinner, Baked Potato or French Fries, Texas Toast, Salad Bar. Tuesday 317 College Avenue 846-8741 WEST LOOP LADIES CLINIC 2909 West Loop South Houston, Texas 713-622-2170 • Termination of Pregnancy • Free Pregnancy Testing Ags ninth Associated Press Top Twenty teams in The As sociated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parenthe ses, followed by season records. 1. Michigan (47) 2. Ohio St. (3) 3. Pitt (7) 4. Oklahoma (3) 5. UCLA 6. Nebraska 7. Georgia 8. Maryland 9. Texas A&M 10. Kansas 11. Penn St. 12. Arkansas 13. Alabama 14. Illinois 15. Louisiana St. 16. N. Carolina 17. Mississippi 18. Boston Col. 19. S. Calif. 20. Texas Tech 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 1-0-1 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 3-0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 1-0-1 3-0-0 2-1-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 Oh no you clont Linebacker Robert Jackson was on his way to touchdown land, but finds quarterback Bill Swanson unwilling to accommo date. It was Jackson’s first interception of the year, and the Ags second of the game. Battle o ANNOUNCING Second Annual Style Show of the B-CS Legal Sec. Assoc, on September 28, 1976 at the Aggie- land Inn in College Station. Fashions by Regans of Culpepper Plaza in College Station. Dinner line serving from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. Style show beginning at 7:30 P.M. Please RSVP by September 24th by mailing in reservation form to: Mrs. Linda Castoria P. O. Drawer DT College Station, Texas 77840 By CARI THURSTON Co-Rec Sports: guys and girls competing together. It involves all dual sports and team sports. Susan Schleider, an assistant director of intramurals, said it is the fastest growing area of intramural sports. Co-Rec uses modified rules, but it gives a player more chance to compete because a participant may enter one men’s or one women s di vision and play on a Co-Rec team, also. 1. I would like reservations for people at $4.00 each 2. for the style show and dinner. Total enclosed: $_ Names of guests attending: I would like reservations for people at $1.00 each for the style show only. Total Enclosed: $_ Names of guests attending: Get into some great pants! TOP DRAWER Culpepper Plaza Co-Rec flag football teams will begin play next week. Teams will consist of six players, at least three of which must be female. Rule changes from regular flag football involve passing and punting. Other rule changes apply to all TAMU flag football and involve blocking. Under these new rules, the de fense is allowed no use of hands at anytime. An offensive player is re quired to interlock his hands behind his back whenever contact is to be made. John Meyer, an assistant director for intramurals, said the changes were primarily made to promote safety and to make sure the offense icr ten i on on nap fror eet, anc lit end ( has the same amount of restridiiSan Anl as the defense. He said thee also create more consistency! the divisions and will makeol ing easier. Shirley Rhodes, team maK I for the Casa del Sol aparlm | team, feels that Co-Recfoi takes as much if not moresil playing in a men’s or wnriM sion. With all the special ruled passes and punts, it takes i good player to know howtoia | make his team work,” she said i the most important thing isei( body getting out and havingai time.’’ Thirty-three teams are! for Co-Rec football this year: l the A class; 10 in the B class, | five in the C class. MCDONALD McDonald's i® INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS McDonalds 38 per cent, 15 per cent increases Football, Tennis Entries Exceed Previous Years sn JBSHtSSST"' Well, the IM Flag Football sea son finally got under way yester day and it looks as though it will be the best season yet. Each year more and more people participate in IM’s, and this year is no excep tion. With 308 teams this year, we have a 38 per cent increase over last years 222 teams. This means that 4912 people will be participat ing in flag football over the next three months. In the A Class, there are 3312 participants, and that Class has the most teams with 207. In this Class, the Military Division has 17 teams, the Fish have 38, Civilian have 16, Women have 12, Co- Recs have 18, and the Indepen dents have a record 82 teams. This is the Class that is the most com petitive and the one in which the teams try for the All-University Championship. There are 1248 entrants in the R Class, making up 78 teams, includ ing 17 Military, 10 Civilian, 4 Women, 35 Independent, and 16 Co-Rec teams. This Class is a semi-competitive league with teams playing each other for the Class Championship. The third and final Class is the C Class which is strictly for fun and not as competitive as the others. It is made up of 352 „ . . > V* ' -i . i - I <1 IM Flag Football action started last week with preseason competition on the Complex Fields. These games were de signed to give both the teams and the officials a chance to practice their skills. players divided into 22 teams. In the C Class, there are 8 Womens’ teams, 7 Independents, and 5 Co-Rec teams. Flag Football will once again be played in a Round Robin fashion with a single elimination playoff. Games will be played daily, Monday through Thursday, from 5-7 p.m. and on Sundays from 2-6 p.m. These contests will take place on the Duncan and Complex Fields, as well as on the Astroturf practice field behind Kyle Stadium. There are 712 regular season games scheduled, so there will be plenty of opportunity for all interested people to come on out and enjoy some good football ac tion. We have also had a large in crease in the number of entrants in Tennis Singles this year. There are 938 participants this year as opposed to 816 last year, which is a 15 per cent increase. In Class A there are 499 entries with the breakdown as follows: Men’s In dependent, 106; Women’s Inde pendent, 18; Men’s Dorm, 80; Women’s Dorm, 16; Fish, 127; and Military, 151 players. There are 343 people entered in Class B, with 105 in Men’s Inde pendent, 35 in Women’s Inde pendent, 97 in Men’s Dorm, 34 in Women’s Dorm, and 72 in the Military Division. The C Class is comprised of 96 participants including 31 in the Men’s Dorm, 2 in the Women’s Dorm, 16 in Men’s Independent, 5 in Women’s Independent, and 43 in Military. Tennis singles will be played on the courts located near the mar ried students’ housing behind Kyle Field. Schedules for matches can be seen at the IM Office at DeWare and all students are in vited to come and watch these as piring tennis players compete. Tournament entries to close September 28 Big Ge when 1 EACE i 3 New rules for Flag Football this year include the require ment that all offensive linemen keep their bands behind their backs (as shown). This new rule is designed to help prevent injuries. Entries for Handball Singles and Badminton Doubles and Sing les close on Tuesday, September 28, at the IM Office. Both of these sports will be played with The Class system in effect. The Badminton competition will be held as a tournament open to all students, faculty, and staff. Both singles and doubles will be played at the same time and it will be a single elimination tourna ment playing under US BA rules. The matches will consist of the Officials: We re Not Here to Cheat You! best 2 out of'3 games to 21 and will be played in G. Rollie While. There is a limited amount of equipment available for check-out at the IM Office and entrants are reminded to check by thereon Thursday, September 30 to see the playing schedules. Handball Singles action begin on October 4 at DeWare Fieldhouse and those schedules will also be in the form ofasingl elrruiuatiou tournament vvilh USHA rules in effect. Play consist of matches of the best 2 out of 3 games to 21, however, the winner need not win by two points, as is customary. fflatt; Golfers: Note By JOHN MEYER I taxed my brain all week to think of what a team could do to get the officials to cheat for them so that they could win their games. I have heard innumerable people tell how the officials had cheated them thus causing them to lose. Logically it should follow that an official could cheat for a team. One question still bothers me. Why would an official con sciously aid one team? There are a few possibilities. A team could attempt to bribe an of ficial with money. They could threaten the official with bodily harm, to harass his grandparents, wife, and children. These things are all illegal and quite distasteful. Thus I would hope that these things would never occur. A player’s attitude may have some effect on the official. The good referees stay aloof of a team’s attitude unless it is in violation of the rules. Realistically, officials seem to catch hitchers doing more illegal things because a talker draws attention. A sensible course of action then is to be nice to the officials just in case it does help. The officials working the games are human beings trying to do the best possible jobs they can do. I always try to get across the idea that officials would not intention ally hurt anybody; that if they do something wrong it is a irfistake, it is not a planned mistake. I truly believe that. I may not respect some guys who officiate; I still think that they are totally honest. Some officials have rotten per sonalities and they may go out and do a lazy job. Nevertheless, I re spect their honesty and integrity, because I don’t think anybody will ever put on a striped shirt and go out to officiate if he wants to steal. My best advice is to play the game as well as you can and hope that you win, at least moral victories. I quote the NCAA rule book: “When an official imposes a pen alty or makes a decision, he is simply doing his duty as he sees it. He is on the field to uphold the integrity of the game of football, and his decisions, even though he may have made a mistake in judgment, are final and conclusive and should be accepted. Even if the player thinks the decision is a mistaken one, he should take his medicine and not whine about it. If there is anything to be said, it is the business of the captain to do the talking. Other players should keep quiet and play the game.” The time and date for the ' Singles Tournament has been set up and will be held on Sunday, October 3 at the TAMU course. Tee times will be assigned to e individual by the IM Office, each participant must come by there on Thursday, September23, to see their assigned tee off time Players must be ready to start i their assigned times or they wi forfeit the match. A green fee of $2.00 will be assessed from each player for use of the course. Pie This ad is sponsored by McDonalds on University drive and is prepared by the IM Of fice, DeWare Fieldhouse. Stories and Photos by Paul “Poogie” Nettell.