THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1979 the sports ook, up in the air—it’s a football Press Internalionil | — Twenty IHHH ashed and 1 All, the heat and sounds of sum- ditical offictiB are here. It’s that mellow, other civilianM-J ul A sports time of year just ist border ti l? 1 baseball All-Star game and \gency saidTuJM' Open golf tournament. It’s the incident^ | time of y ear when P eo P>e start ygur Autonomy 1"'^ predictions about which two 16 when thehH | IS wil1 1)e in the Fal1 Classic a political s l e Octohei. a veteri ff ,s ’ eac ^ wet 'kcnd around this 1 of year you can sit down and l a baseball game or golf tour- lent on the tube. Or you might such sports as kick-boxing, nasties, surfing, water skiing la little track and field thrown in Ihletes around the world begin lie'Sovfetside C ,ine U P *? r t ^ le 198() Olympics, ininistrvalm J B,lt that doesn’t satisfy your f interferingS'-huds. You get an itch. It’s Tetmng you can t explain. Some |gstarts clicking in your brain. It Iris building and building and | you find yourself dreaming of thing that looks like a brown g saucer with laces, ter a night or two your dreams into focus and you realize you p dreaming about.. .football sea- All this time you have been rhTsaid ZM min S of tlu ’ pigskin we all know nLfrv !l iioVe. But this is only July. that all thesei’ u c ; an 1 t ee P ’ . to - You head tor your tavorite | ring hole with your best drink- buddies and there, in the con- tion, the word slips out; foot- un, tug, ng pastures, news agency ijl gn ministry deM ioviet embassy J id the imt of provoai lat was activities of ( he region and ii ations. line 30 a Soviet: >r flew overQl ircled at low ill linese flockso side also pulledj nnen’s livings es such as l ot isolated one signed to crea!i| ten the safetyaa ■ border inhabiti ministry said ;s that the g into Soviet [I ection oftheCW ■er fabrication, ■ ops, I didn t mean to say that, vhisper to yourself. “Heck, this lyjuly and football doesn’t start for a couple of months. I must be crazy.” You find you’re not alone as someone else says, “Say, uh, you know, I was kinda thinkin’ about the Southwest Conference football race th is season and I heard that the Longhorns are supposed to take it. Then like an Aggie bonfire, the conversation erupts as everyone joins in and predictions, statistics, comments, lies, boasts, facts, rank ings, Cotton Bowl teams, rumors and Kyle Field enter into the pic ture before all is said and clone. The next day you re walking by the magazine rack in the store and you see not one but at least THREE different football magazines just waiting to be scoured and devoured at your leisure. Trying to keep your excitement in, you pick up all three or four or 50 and head for the cash register where you buy your first football fix of the new season. You mull over the facts and fig ures. You memorize it all so you will he the wisest football buller around. Who was No. 1? Who will be No. 1? Who’s going to be great this year and who will once again, bite the big chili? Who will be the top high school players who will be chased by the big bucks of college football at the end of the season? Naturally, you believe the magazine that picks your team the highest. For instance, if you believe in Dave Campbell s Texas Football the Aggies will finish third in the con- viewpoint By SEAN PETTY Battalion Sports Editor ference behind Texas and Houston. And if you put your faith in Football Roundup, then the Aggies will finish fifth behind Texas, Arkansas, Houston and Texas Tech. But if you’re an Aggie fan, I think you'll like Southwest Football which is picking the Aggies second in the SWC behind Texas. Any way you look at it, all magazines say the Ag gies will be sidestepping Bevo’s chips and the Longhorns, if you know what I mean. And, according to all those magazines, that may not be too bad considering that all three pick Texas to finish either first or second in the country. But like I said, all that college ball starts in the fall and the players won’t even start to bust heads until mid-August. What’s a guy to do? What if I can t wait until fall? Oh well, more baseball to take mv mind off football. Hey wait a minute! My T.V. Guide must be wrong. “Hey T.B., I scream to my bearded friend, “what month did this T.V. Guide come out? “It says July doesn t it fool? Why?” he asks. “No kidding, I say in disbelief. “It says here the Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders play on televi sion THIS Saturday. Can you be lieve it? The football god, otherwise known as NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, has looked favorably on us and we will watch the annual Hall of Fame Game which will be played in Canton, Ohio Saturday. Oh joy. Yes folks, football is here again, right in the middle of summer. Why it was only 184 days ago when Terry Bradshaw and the Pittsburgh Steel- ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl XIII. We have been waiting since January 22 and now, our cold turkey days are over. From now until January 1980 we will be fed football by the T.V. tube and it might as well be intravenously. Just think, the pro exhibition games start a few days after the Hall of Fame game. The Oilers play St. Louis Aug. 2 and the Cowboys will play again Aug. 4. So after four exhibition and 16 regular season games, the playoffs will start. And after three playoff games in each division comes the granddaddy of them all, the Super Bowl. So that comes down to about 24 more weeks of football starting Saturday. That s almost a glorious half year of football. What a life. Starting September, it will be college football on Satur days and pro football on Sundays and don’t forget Monday nights with a Thursday night game or two thrown in to make sure we don’t get off the stuff. And we addicts know what it all leads up to; a mind-boggling, eye popping, heart-stopping, food and beer-consuming, overdose of 1,000 hours of bowl action in December and January. And after January, who knows, they may start playing games in May next year? NATURALLY LIGHT LUNCH Come to the Sbisa Dining Center Basement. The fresh crisp salad items are almost unlimit ed and the superb sandwiches are made with big loaves of bread baked daily for this special purpose. If you are dieting you may also wish to try a bowl of natural freestone peaches. No sugar has been added to these beautiful peaches. Q ua |jty First Open 10:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. Mon.-Fri. TEXAS HALL OF FAME presents WEDNESDAY NIGHT (7-12) “Road Runner” All Aggies get in free w/current I.D Beer 1.75 per pitcher THURSDAY NIGHT (7-12) “Country Edition” Happy Hour Prices All Night Long FRIDAY NIGHT (7-12) “Southern Sensations” YA’LL COME rep star war in Fort Worth United Press International bRT WORTH — The South [have the bigger names, but coach Frank Bevers is count- ha teamwork to spell victory in pth Texas High School Coaches iation football game this week, classic will highlight the 47th il THSCA clinic underway at Int County Convention Center. 1 be Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in ause was i jjjJ’sAmon Carter Stadium. It pits iwn, airport -|| es t hjgh school seniors in the Jlast year against each other, ers; the head coach at Dallas and Park High School, will the North against Bob been ofTemple, who heads the Prinair flight 6I island of St. :i been schedui St. Maarten red at about 8 St. Croix’s Als rnational AirpoJ ms, many of tl seriously injunl Harwood \lf| iristiansted. nt jhough the South roster in is such names as nationally- t Eric Dickerson of Sealy and James of Houston Stratford, s thinks his team has some t fair talent, too. »estudied all the kids on film,” MT Brs said Tuesday. “That gave me F 17 Kadvantage when they checked Tnday. We’ve been busy teach- continuing pif^he quarterbacks the option I run in the short time we have Hodding Cartsf Monday, jn'VBvers has a trio of talented quar- uation we havfBcks, good enough to make most at it would litfege coaches drool. Fort ton’s Rick McTvor, Fann ie’s Bobby Bishop and Evant’s Williams are on hand. :e North will be far from a an team. While Bevers’ of- calls for a lot of passing and (ning, he’s also counting heavily Sitting good yardage out of his ping backs. [yce Coleman of Plainview, les Waggoner of Dallas Carter Lott Mcllhenny of Dallas High- been threateM i Park will provide both speed 2 incidents, “Is lower. Besides his group of of- precautionary 1 fe threats, Bevers also is ecsta- ty of our person lout noseguard Billy Ray Smith itates hasrepoit pno to anchor his defense. ■ of Soviet ad« ning Dickerson and James on on the sided 'South side, McQueen has ces. her horse for his straight T apartment exptt field in new addition Ernest rn” Sundayovepon of Lamar Consolidated. credentials are nothing short :some. ■■■I McQueen will choose his quar terback from a talented group in cluding Scott Lancaster of Brownwood, Mark James of Gregory-Portland and Anthony Johnson of Union Hill. “We’ve got some outstanding players, there’s no way around that, McQueen said. “But the other team does too. It’s going to come down to who gets the most out of what he’s got. The North leads the series, 25-15, and there have been four ties. The North won last year, 7-6. While the game will be played Saturday, most of the action started Tuesday as almost 6,400 coaches registered for the 47th annual Texas High School Coaches Association clinic. The 6,388 was about 200 more than registered for the first day of last year’s clinic held in Houston. A record 7,385 finally registered at the 1978 school, and officials expected final registration this year to near 8,000. Discussion, instruction, lectures and display booths open Wednes day’s events at 8 a.m. The annual basketball and football all-star games' will highlight the activities on Friday and Saturday nights. The first THSCA clinic was held in 1935 in Dallas, with a total regis tration that year of only 251. FLCKlca Save $2.00 on a cut and That Place II only, Culpepper Plaza. 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