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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1977
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Lou Holtz has the best starting record of a new
SWC coach in the last 20 years, now that his Razor-
backs have presented him victory No. 4. Sam Boyd
won his first four at Baylor in 1958; the SWC has
seen 28 new coaches since. Most successful opening
spurt in SWC history? D. X. Bible won his first 20
games at Texas A&M, then had a tie and pushed his
record to 24-0-1 without yielding a point, before
Texas scored 7-3 victory in the final game of the
1920 season.
Although such records aren’t kept, the 3 1/2-hour
Texas-Rice game Saturday afternoon and evening
must rank in the top ten for time consumed. Among
other things, the game had 15 kickoffs and 38 in
complete passes. Rice sports information director
Bill Whitmore noted the time of the game and de
cided, “Exxon is going up a penny a gallon tomor
row to pay for this broadcast.”
Home attendance at SWC football games showed
a slight rise last week, four games drawing just
under 160,000 for a 20-game average of 37,916. In
all games played to date, Texas A&M leads with an
average of 61,191 after 104,802 sat in on the Aggies’
loss to Michigan. Texas Tech is averaging 48,504,
Baylor 47,383, Texas 46,167, Arkansas 43,421,
Houston 41,085, Rice 38,250, SMU 29,025 and
TCU 27,985.
NOT EVEN CLOSE: Of the 28 games played this'
season by SWC teams, only five have been decided ‘
by five or fewer points while seven have seen mar
gins of 40 points or more, another four margins in
the 30s.
It’ll be the Dallas Metroplex vs. Mississippi, at
least at quarterback, when SMU meets Baylor
Saturday. Baylor’s three QBs are Sammy Bickham
and Scott Smith of the Dallas suburbs of Plano and
Highland Park, respectively, and Greg Wood from
Jackson, Miss. SMU counters with Mike Ford from
Mesquite and Tony Black from Starkville, Miss.
Mark Gibson of Duncanville was also in the SMU
quarterback picture before switching to defensive
back.
In fact, throughout the SWC the quarterbacks
generally hail from the Dallas or Corpus Christi
areas or from out of state. Add Danny Davis (Dallas)
of Houston, Steve Bayuk (Bedford) and Don Harris
(Richardson) of TCU, and Jon Aune (Dallas) of Texas
and you get seven quarterbacks from the Dallas
area. Mark McBath of Texas and Mark Johnson of
Tech are from Corpus. Then there are five out-of-
staters starting or logging a lot of time at quarter
back.
Russell Erxleben s NCAA record 67-yard field
goal against Rice Saturday was the sixth of 60 yards
or more in SWC history, and the fourth in the last
two years. Before Arkansas’ Bill McClard kicked the
first 60-yard field goal in the SWC history in 1970
the record was 55 yards. Since 1970, there have
been 14 over the old mark (by Tech’s Kenny
Vinyard in 1966) and two others equalling it.
YOU FIGURE IT: Penn State beat Houston by
17 points on Sept. 17, the same day Baylor beat
Kentucky by 15 points. So Saturday, while Houston
is beating Baylor by four points, Kentucky is also
beating Penn State by four.
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Ford, SMU
Bayuk, TCU
Hertel, Rice
Davis, Hou
Harris, TCU
Campbell, Texas
Erxleben, Texas
Cowins, Ark
Little, Ark
Aune, Tex
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49
99
78
63
att
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62
90
36
56
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Rushing
yds
563
374
444
401
370
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7.7
7.6
4.5
5.1
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31
37
21
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367
390
301
303
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2
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20
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pts
42
36
42
32
24
ypg
147.0
124.7
111.0
100.2
92.5
cpg
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10.3
9.2
7.0
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14.0
12.0
10.5
8.0
8.0
Ford, SMU
Bayuk, TCU
Cowins, Ark
Davis, Hou
Calcagni, Ark
Tolbert, SMU
Renfro, TCU
Houser, Rice
Bass, Hou
Smith, SMU
Rosenthal, SMU
Little, Ark
Appleby, A&M
Presdtridge, Bay
Erxleben, Tex
Total Offense
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100
73
72
77
Receiving
ct yds
19 319
18 279
13 246
12 182
11 133
yds
708
450
563
405
511
Punting
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19
24
28
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ypg
177.0
150.0
140.7
135.0
127.7
ctpg
4.7
4.5
3.2
3.0
2.7
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44.0
43.5
42.8
42.8
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week, the Dallas Cowboys will not
be the only undefeated team in the
NFC next week.
The Cowboys, 3-0 travel to St.
Louis Sunday and will wear metallic
blue jerseys. The Cardinals have
beaten the Cowboys in St. Louis in
each of the past three seasons. In all
three games, the Cowboys wore
blue.
I feel fine about them (the blue
jerseys) because I don’t have to wear
one, coach Tom Landry said Tues
day, drawing a laugh from reporters
at his weekly news conference. “Se
riously, we don’t worry about it. But
“We lose, it ll be the blue jerseys.'
Remember that next week/
On a serious note, Landry said
there was no difference between the
current Cardinal team and the one
„ lieutet ro jn last year, despite St. Louis’
Air Foa ra lb e r dismal 1-2 record this season.
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it to the ! Iheir offense hasn’t really gotten
icral. antracked but the weapons are still
er e. They are going to explode
sooner or later.
d Weye had some great football
games in St. Louis and I would say
is one probably will be the same
type.
Landry, however, dodged
queries as to how critical the St.
Louis game (and the Washington
game the following week) would be
to Dallas making the playoffs. The
Cardinals, Redskins and Cowboys
traditionally are the strong teams in
the NFC East Division.
“I don’t know how critical they
are,” he replied. “The season is
young and we just want to play well.
I see a lot of things getting better
but championships are won in the
second half of the season. As long as
we’re in striking distance at the
halfway point I’ll be satisfied.”
Landry said starting guard Herb
Scott, who missed the 23-7 victory
over Tampa Bay last Sunday, would
play against the Cardinals.
Landry said game balls for per
formances against Tampa Bay were
awarded to fullback Robert
Newhouse, who scored on a 17-yard
run, linebacker Thomas Henderson,
who returned an interception 79
yards for a touchdown and Bennie
Barnes for his work on specialty
teams.
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