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By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
The premier game of the week in
the Southwest Conference takes
place in Austin Saturday afternoon.
The Texas Longhorns, standing 6-0
on the year and number one in the
national polls, play host to the Texas
Tech Red Raiders. Tech sports a 5-1
season record and is ranked 14 and
13 in the AP and UPI polls respec
tively.
There is a large question mark
hanging over the Tech team. Rod
ney Allison, the Red Raiders’ start
ing quarterback this year until he
was injured in the A&M game, was
hopeful of recovering in time for the
Texas game. He’s listed as doubtful
for Saturday’s game. Tech’s Heis-
Trophy candidate broke his
tibula against the Aggies and had his
cast removed last week. He has
begun reconditioning his leg but his
progress has been slow.
“As of today he’s not going to
start,” Tech head coach Steve Sloan
said Wednesday. “He’s just begun
to jog on it. He’ll have to progress
past the jogging stage to be listed as
our starter.”
If Allison is unable to step in,
Sloan must choose between one of
his other two quarterbacks.
“We ll just have to play it by ear
the rest of the week,” said Sloan,
regarding his starting quarter
back. “Well make a decision be
tween Mark Johnson and Tres
Adami as to who we ll go with.”
Sloan is leaning towards Johnson
as his starter if Allison is unable to
play. In Tech’s last game Johnson
led the Raiders to a 42-7 victory
over Rice. Tech had an open date
last week to prepare for Saturday’s
game.
A starting quarterback isn’t the
only problem facing Sloan this
week. He has a 220-pound problem
in the case of Earl Campbell.
In Campbell’s three years against
Tech he has rushed for 277 yards.
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And he doesn’t
slowed down for
appear to have
the Raiders this
year.
“We’re going to have our hands
full considering we haven t tackled
Campbell in three years,” said
Sloan. “I think so much of him I
went out and bought a truck just like
he’s got,” added Sloan.
“On defense they re superb. Brad
Shearer (defensive tackle) is one of
the finest defensive players in col
lege football. No one has been able
to block him effectively yet.
But the Raiders have some im
pressive statistics themselves. They
are currently ranked number two in
the conference defensively and
number four in the conference of
fensively.
The leading scorer on the Tech
team is Bill “Blade” Adams. Adams
has kicked 18 straight PAT’s and has
booted 9 of 16 field goals so far this
season. One of his field goals was a
57-yarder against the Aggies which
set a Tech school record.
But the game may end
battle of penalties,
games Tech has been
times for 350-yards, whS
been caught 38 times for 40
Ifthe referees can keepfl
in their pockets and the tea!
put to work their respective
plans, the contest should re
another classic SWC battle
Kick-off is at 2 p.
Stadium.
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Vol. 71 N
12 Pages
Conference notes
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The Southwest Conference completed its most
successful non-conference schedule in 27 years
Saturday when Baylor and TCU polished off the
final challengers to give the SWC an 18-9 won-lost
record.
It also kept the SWC atop the non-conference
standings among the 13 conferences playing NCAA
Division I football and marked the 55th season in
which the SWC has won more outside games than it
lost. The SWC has had one break-even year and
seven losing seasons.
Last time a final SWC report card was any better
was in 1951 when the then seven-team conference
went 20-8. That year, however, SWC teams lost two
post-season games to finish with the same .667 per
centage posted this year. The conference had an
18-9-1 regular-season mark in 1956 and improved it
to 20-9-1 with two bowl victories.
Three teams wound up with perfect 3-0 records
— Texas Tech, Arkansas and Texas —- as six had
winning seasons. Baylor, Houston and Texas A&M
were 2-1, while Rice, SMU and TCU went 1-2. The
SWC was 3-0 against the Western Athletic Confer
ence, 2-0 against the Atlantic Coast and Missouri
Valley Conferences, 3-1 against the Big Eight, 1-2
against both the Southeastern and Pacific Eight, 0-2
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against the Big Ten, and 6-2 against all others. According to
Five other conferences have a chance toovertai le of MSC {
the SWC’s won-lost percentage, but they all won! emorialized i
have to win all their remaining games to do so. Or Wayne Star!
rently in third place is the SEC at .569 and itct, iiofficially in t
finish at .677 by sweeping its 12 remaining n# is never men
conference games. They are Alabama vs. Mia®
Florida vs. Utah; Miami and Florida State; Geoip
vs. Richmond and Georgia Tech; LSU vs. Tulas
and Wyoming; Kentucky vs. Virginia Tech;TennB
see vs. Memphis State; and Vanderbilt vs. AirFo®
and Cincinnati.
A loss in any of those games would leave theSEI
with a .656 percentage.
Others with a mathematical shot at the SECrs
ord are the Southland, Pacific Coast, AtlanticCojill traditions,
and Southern — and again they would have tow
them all to overtake the record posted by SE
teams.
Nine of the 13 major conferences have winnii
records so far with three of them having complete le grounds
their seasons against outside foes. Only two
conferences have no chance of finishing with am
ning mark. The Ivy has completed its outsi
schedule with a 7-9 record. And they’re downinlli
Valley with a 6-20 record and only ten to play.
SWC TEAM STATISTICS THRU OCT. 22
RUSHING OFFENSE
Plays
363
327
376
338
342
359
303
269
236
Yds.
1859
1651
1628
1456
1421
1542
831
841
674
TO
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18
11
12
16
9
6
10
5
Game
Avg.
309.8
275.2
271.3
242.7
236.8
220.3
138.5
120.1
96.3
HIGH GAME: 516, Texas (Rice)
Fumbles
No-Lost
19-6
18-11
17- 11
26-16
18- 9
18-6
22-10
18-6
11-8
TOTAL OFFENSE
Team
Texas
Arkansas
A&M
Houston
Tech
SMU
Baylor
TCU
Rice
Plays
436
430
445
441
435
470
489
466
488
Yds.
2567
2498
2102
2078
2060
2131
2131
1757
1768
TD
27
25
17
16
20
17
15
14
11
Game
Avg.
427.8
416.3
350.3
346.3
343.3
304.4
304.4
292.8
252.6
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HIGH GAME: 617, Texas (Rice)
Player & School
E. Campbell, Tex
Cowins, Arkansas
Woodard, A&M
xDickey, A&M
Blackwell, UH
Whittington, SMU
B. Taylor, Tech
xCooper, Rice
Seaborn, Baylor
Hawthorne, BU
Plays
138
117
138
93
103
118
96
86
75
78
Yds.
899
746
594
527
516
523
425
465
459
424
TD
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Play
Avg.
6.5
6.4
4.3
5.7
5.0
4.4
4.4
5.4
6.1
5.4
Game
Avg.
149.8
124.3
99.0
87.8
86.0
74.7
70.8
66.4
65.6
60.6
TOTAL DEFENSE
MOST YARDS: 217 (32 carries), Earl Campbell,
Texas (SMU); LONG: 80, Greg Hawthorne, BU (Tech)
Team
Texas
Arkansas
Tech
A&M
Baylor
Houston
TCU
SMU
Rice
Plays
391
424
360
436
507
441
452
552
575
Yds.
1237
1418
1436
1720
2350
2198
2377
2868
3487
TD
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11
14
16
16
20
20
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Game
Avg.
206.2
236.3
239.3
286.7
335.7
366.3
396.2
409.7
498.1
LOW YIELD: 82, Texas (Virginia)
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