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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1977
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By PAUL ARNETT
Battalion Sports Editor
Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning
of the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning.
—Winston Churchill
Texas A&M returns home from a
ong road engagement to play the
that then MU Mustangs. It marks the real
-cordingt) leginning of the Southwest Confer-
nce (SWC) season.
“Every game from here on in is an
mportant one,” coach Emory Bel
aid said. “We won’t he taking the
e present) MU Mustangs lightly. They have a
ntal paynt lam fine football team.
"They do a lot of things well. On
iffense SMU has the best passing
t-tenant’si quarterback (Mike Ford) in the con-
’ signingn erence. Add to that fact, tailback
roach bit Arthur Whittington, and you have a
to increase /ery balanced attack.”
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The Ponies are averaging 120
ards per game on the ground and
ing the Mustangs. But that won’t be
an easy task. SMU is a much better
ball club than the Rice Owls. And
that was a team A&M played poorly.
“I thought we did a lot of things
well against Rice,” Bellard said.
“We made some mistakes on offen
sive drives, but our defensive sec
ondary played a darn good game.
“Our team has been making prog
ress this year. We keep making
mental mistakes that stop us from
reaching our potential. Our team
does things that give the opposing
team new life. Often we ll have the
team in a hole, but then make a
mental mistake which gives them an
extra advantage.”
The Mustangs’ received an unfor-
seen advantage earlier in the week.
George Woodard, A&M’s great
fullback, strained a hamstring mus
cle and is doubtful for tomorrow’s
game.
“He pulled his hamstring muscle
on Monday,” Bellard said. “Right
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a new rei 185 yards per game through the air now I do not know what his status
will be tomorrow. Eddie Hardin is
the starting fullback as of now. ”
Hardin, in his start against Texas
Tech, did an adequate job. He,
along with the rest of the Aggie
team, will have to do better than
that in order to defeat the Mus
tangs.
The real season begins tomorrow.
If the Mustangs upset the Aggies, it
is the end of the beginning for Cot
ton Bowl dreams.
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erback Mike Ford said. “But I
think I have done a good job since
ny start against TCU. That game
statedthfi was a real confidence builder for
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hosting a tournament. The men’s
team will play an exhibition game
that same weekend with the Dallas
Rugby Club. The rugby games are
played on the Main Drill Field, and
the Club welcomes everyone to
come out on Saturday and watch.
Anyone who wishes to come out
to try their hand at rugby is very
welcome. If you are interested, call
Craig Belew, club president, at
845-4568
By MARK PATTERSON
Readers, take a walk with me
down memory lane. Think back
three years ago to the 1974 football
season. On a rainy November after
noon the Aggies played the SMU
Mustangs in a SWC matchup in the
Cotton Bowl.
SMU entered the game with a 2-2
conference record while the Aggies
were in first place in the conference,
4- 0, and hopeful of a conference ti
tle. The stage was set for the game.
Though the actors were present,
the Aggies forgot their lines that af
ternoon. The Mustangs went home
to Dallas with a 18-14 upset victory
over A&M.
That loss to SMU would eventu
ally knock the Aggies out of the Cot
ton Bowl and give the Baylor Bears,
who were defeated by the Aggies
that year 20-0, the conference
championship, with a 6-1 confer
ence record. The Aggies ended up
5- 2 in the conference, eventually
losing to Texas in the last game of
the season.
The loss to SMU in 1974 was
coach Emory Bollard’s first and only
loss to the Mustangs, going into to
morrow’s game.
In 1977, SMU stands 2-2 in con
ference play while the Aggies are
3-0 and tied for the lead in the con
ference. Does tomorrow’s setting
sound familiar?
SMU would like nothing more
than to add another mark to Bel-
lard’s loss column. But in order for
SMU to repeat its performance of
1974, it will have to play two solid
halfs of football Saturday.
In last week’s game, the Mus
tangs played a solid first half of ball
against the University of Texas. The
Ponies went into halftime trailing
the number one team in the nation
20-7. But with 6:11 remaining be
fore the intermission, the Mustangs
led 7-0. Four turnovers later the
wall had caved in and the Ponies
never recovered in the second half..
But the Aggie game is a new start for
the Ponies and they’ll be ready to
play. Conference leading quarter
back Mike Ford attemted 46 passes
against Texas, completing 21. The
sellout crowd tomorrow be treated
to another aerial show by the SMU
freshman. Ford has averaged 29
passes per game this season.
When SMU turns to its ground
attack, tailback Arthur Wittington
or slotback Emanuel Tolbert usually
get the call. Wittington is the
number six rusher in the conference
with a 74.7 yards per game average.
Challenging the A&M offense is
an SMU defense that has allowed an
average of 23.6 points per game.
Led by two-year letterman Putt
Choate at linebacker, the SMU de
fense will try to shut down the Aggie
offense as it did in the 1974 game.
But that game was played four
years ago by virtually two different
teams than the two that will take the
field tomorrow.
So readers, we must turn out
sights to the present and hope for
the best.
Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.
Pistol team finishes fifth
Head Football Coach Emory Bellard . . . was
interviewed by an ABC News team during
practice on October 25. The interview cen
tered around the now famous kicking style of
Tony Franklin. The interview will be shown
on the ABC Evening News with Barbara
Walters on Friday November 25.
Battalion photo by Larry Sharp
The Texas A&M Pistol Team
journeyed to Arlington for the Fall
UT-Arlington Invitational Pistol
Meet. Three schools entered in the
first pistol competition of the 1977
school year; UT-Austin, UT-
Arlington, and Texas A&M.
The Aggies entered two teams of
5 persons each, plus three indi
vidual competitors.
UT-Austin received first and third
place trophies, while UT-Arlington
took second place.
Five was also the magic number
for the Aggies in the individual rank
ings, as the top A&M shooter took
fifth place. UT-Austin finished first
and second in the individual compe
tition, with UT-Arlington finishing
third and fourth.
The next scheduled eompetion
will be a Southwest Conference In
vitational Meet at Texas A&M on
Saturday, November 5, in the Kyle
Field Indoor Smallbore Range. Fir
ing will begin at 9 a.m. for the first
relay of shooters.
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