Page 12 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1978
SMU ticket sales up
Ponies create support
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
Big time college football has fi
nally returned Dallas. And the pro
duct of the rebirth is the 1978 SMU
Mustangs.
For the past nine seasons, since
1968 when the Mustangs finished
with an 8-3 record and won a birth
to the Bluebonnet Bowl, SMU has
been like a stepchild to the rest of
the Southwest Conference. The
Mustangs have a combined record
of42-54-1 since the 1968 bowl year.
In that same nine-season span
SMU has employed three different
coaches in hopes of regaining the
magic once associated with Mustang
teams of the past. Hayden Fry was
fired following a 7-4 season in 1972,
a year in which SMU finished sec
ond in the conference behind the
University of Texas. It wasn’t a good
enough finish for Fry to remain a
Mustang.
Dave Smith took over for Fry for
the 1973 season and took the Mus
tang athletic program straight to the
dumps. In his short three-year stay
Smith managed to get the SMU
program on NCAA probation for re
cruiting violations while directing
the team to a 16-15-2 mark. Even
cheating, the best season Smith
could salvage was 7-4 in his first year
and a fourth-place tie with Arkansas.
Smith was released following the
1975 season and in stepped Ron
Meyer. Meyer was hired away for
the University of Nevada Las Vegas
where the 37-year-old had compiled
a 27-8 three-year record in his first
head coaching position. He came to
Dallas as no stranger to the area,
having been a scout for the Dallas
Cowboys in 1971 and 1972, when
they won Super Bowl VI. SMU
hoped he could bring his magic to
its program.
And finally, after a 3-8 season in
1976 and a 4-7 season in 1977, the
magician seems to have found the
secret to success. And it’s time for
the conference to sit up and take
notice of Meyer and the Mustangs.
Going into their Ohio State game
Oct. 6 the SMU Mustangs are 2-1
on the year. Impressive when you
consider the games they’ve played.
The Ponies opened against TCU
and won with relative ease 45-14.
But that could be expected consid
ering the opponent. The next week
the Mustangs convinced some skep
tics of their worth by upsetting the
University of Florida 35-25. But still
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
"Ben Stevenson’s very exacting orthodox version has an infectious vi
vacity" "Altogether a 'Beauty' that the Company can be proud of.”
— James Kennedy “The Guardian”
Wednesday, October 18, 1978
8:15 p.m. Rudder Auditorium
Ticket Prices:
General Public - $7.95, $6.45, $5.25
A&M Student/Date-$6.50, $5.35, $4.40
Tickets and information
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MSC Box Office at 845-2916
"ALLEGRO NON TEOPPO"
is not one of Those
"foreign ‘art'f ilnis —
It's an animated
feature —A hilarious
parody of "FANTASIA"/
(Some people go so far
as to sat^ it has the
best animation in
the last VO years/)
Bruno Bozzetto’s
Allegro NonTroppo
(don’t let the name fool you)
Released bv New Line Cinema
MSC ARTS Committee
Place Rudder Auditorium
Time Oct. 2, 8 P.M.
Price $1.00
some doubted.
All doubt was shed after last
week’s narrow loss at the hands of
Penn State. SMU held the lead
throughout most of the contest until
losing 26-21. And after three impre
ssive games people are finally notic
ing the Mustangs.
“Now people believe in the SMU
Mustangs and are beginning to sup
port our program, ’’ said Bob Farrell,
ticket manager of athletics at SMU.
“With our performance so far this
season we re getting more exposure
than ever.
“The Dallas community has fi
nally gotten behind us and is back
ing our program. The 40,000 people
we had at the TCU game (SMU’s
only home game thus far this season)
was the largest crowd we’ve had at a
TCU-SMU game in over 20 years.
Most people in this area have never
even seen SMU play or haven’t
gone to see them in years. We re
trying to change that under Ron
Meyer.
“We have an enrollment of bet
ween nine and 10,000 student and
we sold 7,000 student tickets to the
TCU game,” Farrell added. “The
students have even begun to sup
port us this season. And there’s no
question that the Penn State game
helped us. Since last weekend we’ve
been swamped with ticket orders for
our last three home games.
“We were sent only 1,500 tickets
for the Ohio State game and those
were sold long ago,” Farrell con
tinued. “But with the orders that
have kept coming in we could have
sold over 5,000 more tickets.
“The increase in interest has
come with Meyer upgrading our
program along with Russ Potts’
(SMU’s athletic director) improved
marketing of our product. Stores all
around the Dallas area are posting
our schedules and helping with our
support. Now everyone knows at
least who and when we’re playing.
SMU is back on the football map. ’
And it’s time for the SWC, along
with the rest of the country, to take
notice of the new-born Mustangs.
Yankees
uniformed
for press
United Pres* Intern utionai
NEW YORK — The New York
Yankees’ clubhouse will never be
the same,
A small group of women repor
ter's from local TV stations ap
peared Tuesday night for the first
time in the Yankees’ clubhouse
following a U S. District Court
decision saying they could not be
barred.
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reporters asked did not
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the decision by Judge
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? one of the women
Why don’t you get in
your uniform now?”
‘Tm in my uniform,” the
woman replied.
Yankee outfielder Lon Piniella
said, “I don’t care what they do,
it won’t have any effect on the
pennant race or how we play. All
I know is when the man says
play ball,’ they won’t be on the
field, will they?”
Melissa Ludtke, the Sports Il
lustrated reporter who brought
the court proceedings after last
year’s World Series, was not
among the initial group of
pioneer women reporters.
Baseball commissioner Bowie
Kuhn has appealed the court rul
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Football team experience
extraordinary kind of wee
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
As the first home football game of
the 1978 season approaches, a cer
tain amount of tension begins to
build up around the Texas A&M
University campus. The students
become a little livelier and the cam
pus is generally buzzing with activ-
fty-
But for the football team, the
week starts the same way it has
since the beginning of August, just
another week of practice. The only
differences are the practices will be
geared towards a different team and
the Aggies will not have to get on a
plane or bus and travel thousands of
miles to play in a foreign land.
For the students, the week starts
early Monday morning with the
seniors flocking to G. Rollie White
Coliseum to pick up their first tic
kets of the season, tickets that will
hopefully be in the upper deck after
sitting in the horseshoe for three
years.
The football team begins to loosen
up on Monday, trying to get over
the various bumps and bruises re
ceived in the last game. It is the
worst day for the coaches as they
find out how well a certain player
will be able to play Saturday or if he
will be forced to sit this one out due
to injury. On this particular Mon
day, head coach Emory Bellard
watched and waited to see if
halfback Curtis Dickey’s thigh in
jury would hamper him in any way.
As the practice went on, Dickey ran
better and better, much to Bellard s
relief Split end Doug Teague was
another Aggie who received an in
jury. After Monday’s practice,
Teague showed that he would be
able to play on Saturday.
By Tuesday the juniors start pick
ing up their tickets which will prob
ably be in the horseshoe. Now the
griping starts. The juniors cannot
understand how the seniors can
gobble up all those tickets in the
upper deck. Also by Tuesday, class
attendance begins to drop as the ex
citement becomes too much for
some students who must rest in
order to be ready for the weekend of
parties.
Tuesday afternoon the Aggies
work long and hard. The offense
runs plays against the scout team
which lines up in the opponents de
fensive formations. Another part of
the scout team runs the opponent’s
offense against the first team de
fense.
Wednesday the sophomores pick
up their tickets which are sure to be
in the horseshoe. Everyone finalizes
their plans for the weekend. The
students that are in class do not have
their minds on classwork. There are
more important things to think ab
out, What will I do before yell
practice? I wonder if my date is
going to get here Friday? What can
I do after the game? Who’s bringing
the beer? What time was 1 supposed
to pick up the keg?”
The problems become too much
for the average student who must
take all these questions into consid
eration. This explains the high ab
senteeism close to the end of the
week.
Th ursday finds the freshmen
practically in tears over the tickets
they have picked up for the game.
How can anyone even see the game
from those end zone bleachers?
Thursday afternoon the Aggie
football team is taking it easy. The ,
Aggies are as prepared and
led as they are going to be|,
day’s showdown with \| I—
State. i —
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By now there is almost
pitch on campus as Friday
the last classes of the M
come to an end.
It’s Friday afternoon
everyone is ready to w
gies play on Saturday. D 0n
dents and apartment dwef
to their humble abodes n
them up after three week
and clothes have built up,
will more than likely be I*
weekend.
By Friday night there are
Good Ags running aroiu
everyone seems to be the
friends under the influence
magical mystical brew. The
ment is at its height forthesii
who have made it to the
another week and are celd
the fact.
But over in Cain Mall
ous silence falls overCv
entire football team is lode
the dorm. Their minds aren
thing and one thing only; th
on Saturday. All visitors area
leave C iving arid shortfy afe
managers lock the doors,
physical preparation is over,
is left is the mental prepa
which is up to each individs
So while the rest oftbeoi
going full speed and screaii
yelling and singing, theli
team thinks, sleeps and wait
chance to show the fruit]
labors.
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