Paul Arnett
THE BATTALION Page 9
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977
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A&M has had the best team
conference the past three
The only problem is that no
on Bowl games have included
Aggies to prove the belabored
Lch Emory Bellard chooses not
Jk about the bitter past. He is
interested in the bright future
s Aggie team-
„_re anxiously awaiting the
tcollegiate football season,” Bel-
said. “We believe we’ll have a
petitive team that will con-
itly improve.”
|1&M, led by senior (juarterback
id Walker, should field one of
best offensive units in the coun-
Running backs George
idard, Curtis Dickey and David
[thers, combined with a great of-
line, will be able to run over
defensive formation they face.
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“With seven starters returning,”
Bellard said, “our offensive team
should be a strong, solid unit.”
The only question mark falls upon
the inexperienced defensive team.
This has not been a problem in the
past, and Bellard seems confident of
the future.
“Our defense should mature
quickly,” Bellard said. “With this
maturity, they should become
another aggressive unit.”
A very aggressive team, which
shall be in hot pursuit of the Aggies,
is the Texas Tech Red Raiders. And
when you talk about the Red Raid
ers, you talk about quarterback Rod
ney Allison.
Last year Allison made his debut k
against the Aggies and led them to a
27-16 upset victory. He has had
nothing but success since.
“Rodney Allison is one of the
finest quarterbacks I’ve seen, ” coach
Steve Sloan said. “We feel he is a
defenite Heisman Trophy candi
date.”
Like the Aggies, defense is the
main concern of the Red Raiders.
“On defense the main area of con
cern is replacing linebacker Thomas
Howard,” Sloan said. Most of our
defensive success was centered
around him. Our secondary is in
good shape, with depth in our defen
sive line being another major con
cern.”
The Houston Cougars’ major con
cern is also in that defensive line.
Wilson Whitley, who led the
Cougars to cotton last year, has re
tired to the pros.
“We have lost our entire left side
of our defensive line, coach Bill
Yeoman said. “If we are to compete
with the Aggies or the Red Raiders,
we are going to have to find someone
to replace those men.
Offense, on the other hand, is of
no real concern for the Cougars.
“The offense did a great job last
year,” Yeoman said. “We will have
seven starters returning from last
year’s squad. If our defense can play
competitively, then we should have
a chance of winning it all. ”
The dark horse in this year’s chase
is the Baylor Bears. If coach Grant
Teaff can piece his unpredictable
squad together, then the Bears may
have a chance of sneaking into first
place.
“Unpredictable might be a good
description of us,” coach Teaff said.
I am optimistic about this team,
but being a realist, I also know that
inexperience, youth and great talent
mixed together can only make for an
unpredictable season.”
The Bears lost 11 men to the pros,
with defense being the main
supplier of that market.
“The big problem is defense,”
Teaff said. “For us to be successful
defensively, some young, inexperi
enced players are going to have to
come through for us.”
The rest of the conference colleges
will only play in the Cotton Bowl
when they play SMU. The Mustangs
will play host in that great stadium
five times. There won’t be a sixth.
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FOREST HILLS, N.Y. — Eddie
Dibbs and John McEnroe hadn’t
planned it that way, but for a few
frantic moments tennis was the
farthest thing from their minds.
The two players had just begun
play in last night’s final match when
a gunshot was fired from the stands,
hitting a 33-year-old male spectator
in the left leg and shattering the
genteel setting of Forest Hills
Stadium.
It was an inauspicious beginning
for what was surely the toughest
match of the fifth day of competition
at the $462,400 U.S. Open tennis
championships. It was also a partic
ularly dire night for the ninth-
seeded Dibbs, who was beaten by
McEnroe 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
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[lie Southwest Conference opens
62nd football season next Satur-
with two league games right off
I prospects running high for a
le open race.
Jl nine conference teams will be
iction on the opening weekend
— although defending co-champion
Houston will wait until Monday
night to embark on its campaign —
and for the second consecutive year
the Baylor Bears will be involved in
a critical contest on the first Satur
day.
Baylor began its season last year
louston’s Hardeman
appy with victory
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United Press International
10USTON -- Fullback Don
laws” Hardeman is raising his
gice again and that could be a big
is for the Houston Oilers this sea-
I.
Tve been called a fat hog,” says
pdeman, who reported to the
Ters training camp in August 30
iimds overweight.
“But I’ve known all along I could
the job.”
[Saturday night he did the job for
le first time since he burst on the
FL scene in 1975 full of poems
jd self praise. His two touchdowns
Id 109 yards rushing helped Hous-
peat the Dallas Cowboys, 23-14,
leach team s fifth preSeason game.
IThey were outhitting us,” said
kboys coach Tom Landry, whose
|b is 2-3 in exhibition play and
jesently playing without regular
iiirterback Roger Staubach.
[Staubach rested a pulled ham-
ing Saturday night and backup
inny White distinguished himself
completing 16 of 22 passes for
I yards and a touchdown. But
[hite drove Dallas to only one
ichdown. The victory was Hous-
1 s first over Dallas in four seasons
or since Bum Phillips became
[ad coach.
five been waiting a long time to
t them," Phillips said. Then he
Pghed.
JBall control, ground hogging of-
M>se is Phillips’ style and the Oilers
IwW ecl llim k y rushing for 252
ds and a 5.6-yard average carry.
Listen, said Phillips, “we were
Wng the ball against a doggone
—d defensive football team.”
„ "d' the Cowboys-- Jethro Pugh,
Bp nl...,—3 1.1 ’
and Terry Metcalf and O.J. Simpson
last year and they never ran on us
like this.”
Hardeman, who still carries a
hefty 245 pounds, sought out inter
viewers after the game as well as he
did running room during it.
“I don’t play well when I’m
critized,” he said. “When people
pump me up I want to do good. I
don’t know what I weigh right now,
but I feel good and strong.
Not since his rookie 1975 season
has “Jaws,” talked so much. Then,
he predicted stardom for himself
and a touchdown every five times
he carried the ball.
“I’m not predicting anything at
this time,” he said.
His performance, and a slight in
jury to Fred Willis, likely cleared
the Oilers running back situation.
NFL teams must be down to 43
players by the start of the season
and Houston had one back too
many.
Hardeman, Ronnie Coleman,
Tim Wilson, Rob Carpenter and
Horace Belton may have made the
team when Willis twisted a knee.
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I e Played guys like Walter Payton
with the Houston Cougars, and al
though at the time that game was
not considered all that important, it
turned out to be a springboard for
Houston’s surprising trip to a share
of the league title and a journey to
the Cotton Bowl.
This time around the Bears will
host the Texas Tech Red Raiders,
who shared the conference crown
with the Cougars last year and who,
along with Houston and Texas A&M
are being mentioned as cham
pionship caliber.
Baylor and Tech will kick it off at
4 p.m. Saturday, one of four games
involving conference clubs
scheduled for that time.
“Obviously we would just as soon
play someone other than a confer
ence team,” said Tech coach Steve
Sloan. “But there is nothing we can
do about that. We just have to be as
ready as we can be.
At the same time the Bears and
Raiders will be opening it up, SMU
and TCU — both picked for the bot
tom third this year — will face each
other in Fort Worth.
Texas A&M, another of the likely
championship contenders, will start
its season with a 4 p.m. game at
home against Kansas and Texas be
gins the season at the same time in
Austin against Boston College, the
team that started the Longhorns on
the way to a bland 5-5-1 record in
1976.
Arkansas hosts New Mexico State
and Rice entertains Idaho in night
games Saturday and Houston will
make a national television appear
ance the following Monday night in
the Astrodome against potent
UCLA.
Tech with all-America quarter
back candidate Rodney Allison, will
be favored to take the Bears, who
will be starting several players who
have never played a varsity game.
And if the Red Raiders can whip
Baylor, the schedule begins to favor
them. The key early season confer
ence battle comes Sept. 24 in Lub
bock when Tech will host Texas
A&M.
That game is the first in a poten
tially murderous stretch for the Ag
gies, who then must tackle Michi
gan on the road and Baylor on the
road.
A&M, Houston and Tech make
up the top echelon in the preseason
picks, Texas, Arkansas and Baylor
make up the second three and the
bottom portion of the early selec
tions is made up of TCU, SMU, and
Rice.
But, as SMU coach Ron Meyer
said:
“All of that talk doesn’t mean a
thing. Nobody knows nothing until
we tee it up.
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