Page 8 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1977
Texas Tech is No. 6
Playboy picks A&M 10th
By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Sports Editor
The September issue of Playboy
Magazine includes its predictions of
college footballs’ top players and
teams with the Texas A&M Aggies
listed as the No. 10 team in the na
tion.
The magazine names Texas Tech
to be the eventual Southwest Con
ference champion and berths the
Red Raiders on the No. 6 slot in the
national rankings. Defending Cot
ton Bowl champ Houston is tabbed
No. 18.
However, the Playboy poll must
be taken with a grain of salt — it’s as
correct as often as the magazine
forgets to include its famous center
fold.
This year though, the magazine
may be proved correct, depending
upon several variables.
The poll sees Tech winding up
with a 10-1 record and the Aggies
finishing with a 9-2 mark. As Michi
gan is predicted by Playboy to be
this year’s national champion with a
perfect 11-0 record, one of the Ag
gies’ two losses must be at the hands
of the Wolverines (The two play
Oct. 1 in Ann Arbor).
The Aggies other loss then, must
be to the Red Raiders as a loss to any
other SWC team coupled with a win
over Tech would still put the Aggies
in the Cotton Bowl. Thus, the criti
cal game of the season for both
teams is their Sept. 24 meeting in
Lubbock.
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Red Raiders:
“Steve Sloan, Texas Tech’s young
head coach, has become widely
known as the new Bear Bryant. His
gridiron productions, both at Van-
^derbilt and Texas Tech, have been
little short of miraculous. Sloan’s
teams are famed for their offensive
fireworks and this one should be no
different. Sloan insists that Rodney
Allison is the premier quarterback
in the country. He will work behind
a skilled line led by Playboy All-
America Dan Irons. The only threat
to the Red Raiders’ success is the
fact that it is a senior-dominated
team and such groups are often
prone to ennui. But one of Sloan’s
prime talents is maintaining the en
thusiasm and dedication of his
squad. If he can do it this time, the
Raiders should wind up in the Cot
ton Bowl.”
As for Emory Bellard’s Aggies:
“Texas A&M’s defensive platoon
was stripped by graduation, but
there is a stockpile of replacement
talent on hand. If they learn their
jobs quickly, the Aggies will be as
strong as ever, because the offense
looks nearly unstoppable. Fullback
George Woodard, a trim 265-
pounder, steamrollers opposing
tacklers and fleet halfback Curtis
Dickey leaves them dazzled in his
wake. The kicking game has to be
seen to be believed. Punter David
Appleby averaged nearly 40 yards
last year as a freshman and Playboy
All-America Tony Franklin may be
the best field goal kicker in the
country, college or pro.”
The magazine joins a host of other
publications torn between choosing
the Aggies or the Red Raiders with
most leaning towards the latter, on
the basis of multi-talented Tech
quarterback Rodney Allison.
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Last year. Playboy picked Texas
as choice in the SWC title race,
joining a host of others “done
wrong” by Tech and Houston.
Playboy names Irons, Franklin,
Texas A&M lineman Frank Myers,
Texas fullback Earl Campbell and
Longhorn punter Russell Erxeleben
to its All-America team’ which in
cludes the magazine’s top 24
players.
Also listed as candidates for hon
ors were Woodard and Allison. Ag
gies David Walker and Curtis Di
ckey were tabbed probable all
conference players.
In addition to drawing the
magazine’s choice as the No. 1 team
in the nation, Michigan was the only
school to get more than two players
named to Playboy’s All-America
team. Offensive lineman Walt
Downing, and Mark Donahue and
linebacker Zac Henderson were the
three chosen players.
Kentucky Head Coach Frank
Curci was picked as Coach of the
Year by the publication.
One misnomer about the Playboy
player selections is that the
magazine pirmarliy chooses players
from the major football schools, al
lowing many first-rate players from
small schools to go unmentioned.
Behind Michigan in the poll was
Oklahoma, follwed by Notre Dame.
Southern Cal and Colorado were
fourth and fifth with Tech No. 6.
Alabama, Ohio State, Maryland
and Texas A&M closed out a Top
Ten filled with familiar names.
The other ten teams also inlcuded
no strangers. Last year’s national
champion Pittsburgh was listed No.
11 followed by Arizona State, Mis
sissippi State, Penn State and
Florida. •
Nebraska, Georgia, Houston,
UCLA and Cincinnati round out the
magazine’s Top 20.
The Playboy Top 20
Southwest Conference players Dan Irons,
Texas Tech, Tony Franklin (1) and Frank
Meyers, Texas A&M, have been named to
Playboy magazine’s 1977 Preview All-Amer
ica Team, featured in the September
Not pictured are Texas’ Earl CampM
Russell Erxleben.
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