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ampbell’s No. 1 rusher in SWC THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1977 Pag© 7 DEAR FRANNY he records bear out that the Southwest Conference is now see- y L the three most prolific place- Hers in NCAA football history — ■ssell Erxleben of Texas, Tony Fnmklin of Texas A&M and Steve ittle of Arkansas. on, havinjlhut what has gone almost un- opening® Heed is that the SWC may also he tnpcsine the three most prolific- oners in its 64-year history, harl Campbell of Texas became 1 0 n the SWC all-time and 1977 ). the Aggi H lay and 11 hey make .. ' s look shf provide ct nee to work rimentboll isively inger p] 'ry has know, i tu relay. nt ny sort. He ough. ws exactlyl starting with pre-season (AP first, UPI second- sing the \\ the same illieswerele 19-17, x-15, 19-17, and x-x; Texas x, 18-13, 9-9, 8-8, 5-4, 2-2, and 2-2; A&M 9, 7-7, 6-7, 5-5, 12-17, 13-14, and 12-11; Texas Tech 8, 8-8, 7-6, 13-19, 17-16, 13-15, and 13-13. The Baylor Bears should be cheering the news accept# that Kentucky is eighth in this week’s AP poll, be- not surewl cause it marks the fourth straight season that Baylor has been tough on ranked teams. In 1974 the Bears beat Oklahoma State, ranked eighth; Texas, that got as high as fifth; and Texas Tech, seventh one week. )ome. Toll In 75, the Bears tied a Michigan team that was national Lei; ath in eliever. "Ti ;o througi can to Clevdaii don’t have Yanks in ret ley’re hai ng Wayne C iry withoutl like Munsi dent Gabe! Tech leveland.il A6iN1 fim McQ receiver, ml Bob Gl inals and ne of the pi s minorlei this one y( rythingwai at all wM v a hallgame the peopl i’t thrown) -s McCarve then pointe d to this irtery here lear acrossy the botti you get endeneyfoti to becomei .•nil up -e getting le ice you bed ht up in now and S' er is that yin a player, was telli season tables Saturday by rambling for 188 yards in the 13-9 victory over Arkansas. That pushed the Tyler Rose’s career totals to 3,385 yards, eclips ing the old record of 3,317 by Dickey Morton of Arkansas (1971- 73). Campbell also replaced Arkan sas Ben Cowins as the 77 season leader with an average gain of 137.2; yards per game to Cowins’ 131.4 However, the considerable shadow of Texas A&M’s 275-pound fullback, George Woodard, now looms over Campbell s fresh, new record. With one year to play after this, Woodard is in a strong position to overtake Campbell’s record by the end of his career and sophomore teammate Curtis Dickey rates a fair shot to join them as the three biggest ground-gainers in SWC his tory before he’s through in 1979. A projection of both Campbell’s and Woodard’s per-game average against the remaining games in their Conference notes. The points are going up in SWC play this season. The 25 non-conference games to date have seen an average of 43.6 points per outing, while the 12 SWC games have produced an average of 49.3, about five points per game over the 1976 norm. Texas is the major contributor, the Longhorns having scored 15 more points through five games this season than they did in all of last year. UP AND DOWN THE POLLS: A week-by-week tour of the SWC teams ranked in the top twenty. Jphabetical order, you know): Arkansas x, x, 16-15, 12-11, 7-9, 8-8, and 9-8; Houston x, 9-12, 19-x, ranked second. Last year Baylor defeated Texas, TOTAL OFFENSE Team Texas Arkansas Houston TCU SMU Baylor Rice Plays 361 344 380 435 363 389 397 415 402 Yds. 2127 2056 1934 2060 1698 1586 1854 1655 1429 TD 24 21 16 20 14 11 15 11 9 HIGH GAME: 617, Texas (Rice) RUSHING OFFENSE Team Texas A&M Tech Baylor TCU SMU Rice Plays 301 312 261 290 342 306 244 242 199 Yds. 1573 1340 1336 1318 1421 1207 731 817 515 TD 20 9 16 12 16 7 4 10 4 Game Avg. 425.4 411.2 386.8 343.3 339.6 317.2 309.0 275.8 238.2 Game Avg. 314.6 268.0 267.2 263.6 236.8 201.2 146.2 136.2 85.8 Punts No-Avg. 22-40.8 27-42.5 26-40.4 33-38.2 30- 40.7 31- 41.9 31-42.4 40-41.6 52-36.4 Fumbles No-Lost 16-6 15- 9 10-7 18-11 18-9 17-6 16- 8 17-5 10-7 ranked as high as fifth. Earlier this season the Bears handed Kentucky its only loss, 21-6. Eighteen of the 40 teams Baylor has played from the 74 opener through last week have achieved top ten status at some point, and provided Texas and Arkansas re main in the top ten through their games with Baylor, they will he the sixth and seventh Bear op ponents this season to he ranked in the top ten dur ing the year. JUST FOR KICKS: No, it’s not your imagination, SWC punters are kicking them further, from an av erage of 37 yards in 1970 to 40.2 this year. And if they keep improving at the rate of 3.2 yards every seven years, in the year 2012 when Russell Erxle ben is 55 years old, he’ll have to kick his age to he an average punter. Four Southwest Conference games Saturday drew 162,759, pushing SWC h ome attendance over one million. To date 1,036,115 have seen 27 home games, for an average attendance of 38,375. Atten dance remains slightly under the 1976 record aver age of 39,240, but Saturday s turnout marked the first time this season that the full SWC card aver aged more than 40,000 per game. TOTAL DEFENSE Game Punts Team G Plays Yds. TD Avg. No-Avg. Texas 5 318 960 2 192.0 41-43.8 Tech 6 360 1436 11 239.3 44-37.1 Arkansas 5 363 1274 4 254.8 34-38.0 A&M 5 350 1381 12 276.2 36-41.9 Baylor 6 430 1964 15 327.3 35-40.3 Houston 5 355 1756 12 351.2 28-42.1 SMU 6 477 2428 17 404.7 27-38.5 TCU 5 372 2060 19 412.0 28-40.9 Rice 6 485 3087 34 514.5 27-44.5 LOW YIELD: 82, Texas (Virginia) RUSHING Play Game Player & School G Plays Yds. TD Avg. Avg. E. Campbell, UT 5 106 686 8 6.5 137.2 Cowins, Arkansas 5 97 657 7 6.8 131.4 Woodard, A&M 5 122 525 6 4.3 105.0 Blackwell, UH 5 93 492 3 5.3 98.4 xDickey, A&M 5 78 421 1 5.4 84.2 Whittington, SMU 6 102 500 5 4.9 83.3 Taylor, Tech 6 96 425 4 4.4 70.8 xAllen, TCU 5 60 301 1 5.0 60.2 Hawthorne, BU 6 69 343 2 5.0 57.2 Thomas, Houston 5 54 281 1 5.2 56.2 xCooper, Rice 337 56.2 HIGH GAME: 516, Texas (Rice) MOST YARDS: 203 (21 carries), Ben Cowins, Ark (Okla. St.); LONG: 80, Greg Hawthorne, BU (Tech) Allison back United Press International LUBBOCK — All -Southwest onference quarterback Rodney Al- son returned to Texas Tech work- jits Wednesday and coach Steve ban said he probably would re- J me practicing Monday, i ill Allison suffered a broken bone in iuL. ' s ' n *h e Red Raiders’ loss to exas A&M four weeks ago. Tech oes not play this weekend and *1 a tkpre It n "°P es Allison will be ready for that Texas game Oct. 29 in Austin. 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Campbell entered the 77 season averaging 17.1 carries per game, but is averag ing 21.2 through the Longhorns’ first five games. And Woodard aver aged 20.3 carries per game his first two seasons, 24.4 this year. In addition to the rushing lead, Campbell also assumed the top spot in tandem offense, having upped his game average to 146.6, again slightly ahead of Cowins’ 135.6 to tal. But fair is fair and Longhorn teammate Erxleben ousted Campbell from the scoring lead as the junior kicker heads the list with a 10.0 average to 9.6 for Campbell. Other lead changes occurred in (153.2) continue their back-and- forth battle for supremacy there. D. K. Perry’s last-play intercep tion for a touchdown in SMU s win over Houston gave the Mustang junior three thefts for the year, tops in the SWC. Four players are tied with two each. 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