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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1980 Sports TA S A WITCH WITHOUT A STITCH? — MAYBE — Zacharlas Greenhouse 5th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BALL THURS., OCT. 30 Mr | Red hot Mustangs to entertain Aggies MORAL WIN ILAM’S By KURT ALLEN Battalion Staff If one Southwest Conference team contains more surprises this year than any other, it would have to be SMU. At season’s start, the Mustangs were expected to be a good team, but in the vein of Texas A&M, were not thought to be top conference title contenders. That role was re served for Houston, Arkansas and Texas as evidenced by the presea son Texas Football magazine poll. They were also not considered a prime candidate for top 20 national ranking. But the Ponies refused to believe the polls, compiling instead a 5-2 record so far along with a scoring average of 27 points per game. Admittedly, their 2-2 conference record puts their title hopes on the back burner for now. Yet SMU nearly won both of its conference losses against Baylor and Houston, which indicates its strength. In the Baylor game at Waco, the Mustangs took a large early lead and 3E n held it until a furious Bear comeback late in the second half made the final score 32-28. As for the Houston loss, SMU could have easily won the game, but did not execute very well and let the Cougars stay in the game. Houston eventually eked out a 13-11 deci sion. SMU Head Coach Ron Meyer still shakes his head over the re sults. “You can’t be human and not think about those two games,” said Meyer. “Especially when any one of countless plays could have turned those two games around.” Then, last weekend against Tex as, the Ponies finally showed what they were capable of doing. As usu al, their offense did a credible job. The real story was the wrecking job the SMU defense did on the super charged Longhorn offensive ma chine. Texas had been averaging 31 points a game coming into the SMU contest, but the Mustangs tightend the screws letting only six points slip from their grasp. Even more convincing was the job they did on Longhorn quarter back Donnie Little. Before the Ponies feasted on him, Little had led the conference in total offense with about 200 yards a game. But the Ponies only allowed him to com plete nine of 23 passes for 76 yards, while holding him to 24 yards on the ground. “We have finally forged our way up to respectability,” said Meyer on Monday. “Now we have to on. I felt that we could go into Austin and win the game.” Wnat’s so ironic about all this is that the Mustang offense had been expected to carry the team. Few people would have dreamed in late August that SMU could hold Texas to six points. So far, rushing has been the bread and butter of the Ponies’ of fense. This was especially true against Texas where SMU piled up 283 yards on the ground. The star of that game was tailback Craig James who ran for 146 yards including a 53-yard TD scamper. That gave James 535 yards for the season, meaning he could still possi bly have a 1,000-yard season. Another player to watch is fellow tailback Eric Dickerson who picked up 85 yards against Texas and now has 513 yards as well. Meanwhile, the Ponies’ passing game has had some rough going which resulted in junior quarterback Mike Ford being benched in favor of freshman Lance Mcllhenny. Mcllhenny completed only one of eight passes against Texas in his first start, but according to Meyer, ex ecuted an almost flawless ball game. “Lance Mcllhenny is not your ty pical freshman,” said Meyer. “I was very, very pleased with his perform ance. “Mike Ford was helping me call the plays on the sidelines. He was working with Lance in the third quarter. And I think that’s a tre mendous thing for Ford and Mike Fisher to be so supportive.” The story of Mike Ford this year is an unfortunate one. After suffer ing an injury during last year’s 5-6 season, Ford won an extra year of eligibility and there had been high hopes for this year. But his performance this year has been sub-par. After the Ponies’ first six games and just before the Texas contest, Ford had completed only 46.7 percent of his passes and had thrown an alarming eight intercep tions in 152 attempts. In both the Mustang’s losses, Ford’s intercep tions were cited as crucial factors. It was those lackluster peform- ances against Baylor and Houston that led Meyer to replace Ford with Mcllhenny. Meyer Monday said Mcllhenny will continue indefinite ly as the starter. Meyer also said a bowl bid was a legitimate goal for his players and he was not afraid to talk about it with four games still left to play. He did say Monday that the upset win over Texas was a landmark in the Mustang’s program, but ad mitted the victory would be dimin ished if SMU lost to downtrodden Texas A&M. 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He* 11 s ' ttin 8 would usually reach their peak in the Southwest Conference ra(>jj* e " ‘ ,oss ’ But the dean of SWC coaches wants to settle on his best playw intervi before the season gets underway, so they will be able to keepabet!;| e P orters f r hold on a possible national ranking. ■wsconie Last year, the Aggies opened the season with a top 20 natiomr 5 ests ' ranking in both polls, but two straight losses knocked the Agsoulmr c ' en ' et late in the year. tion re 9 U11 So this year, in an attempt to stay ranked, Metcalf wants ! an 1 va > uatl establish his top people early. “Its tough to get back in (the ®l|P P artn< ings),” he said, “so we want to be as ready as possible from the start Saturday before the Rice football game, the Ags held their secoaf n f l(>! intra-squad scrimmage and the results were nothing to write about. The scrimmage marked the first time the new improvitl “Wall” played together. 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