Page 8 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1980
TANK IfrFNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
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Smith named Exec of Year
Bears begin to ‘believe’
on their way to Cotton
United Press International
Next weekend will bring us Bowl
Saturday and the Baylor Bears have
already chosen the one they want.
But in case there was any doubt,
the t-shirts being worn around
Baylor Stadium last Saturday ended
the speculation.
“Cotton Bowl ’81,1 Believe,” read
the shirts, and the Cotton Bowl is
where the Bears will be on Jan. 1 if
they beat the Rice Owls in Houston
next Saturday. Baylor has already
clinched at least a share of the South
west Conference championship (its
fourth in history) and need only one
win in its last two games to clinch the
New Year’s trip to Dallas.
But there will be other bowl hope
fuls next weekend, SMU and Texas
chief among them.
The Mustangs, assurred of their
best record in eight years and poss
ibly heading toward their best mark
in 32 years, could well be tendered
an offer to a bowl game following
their meeting with Texas Tech in
Lubbock next Saturday.
And the Longhorns, having ended
their two-game losing streak and eli
minated the two-time defending
champion Houston Cougars from
any Cotton Bowl expectations, will
also probably pick up a bowl invita
tion after their game with TCU in
Fort Worth.
But if Baylor should happen to lose
to the Rice Owls, Texas and SMU
could still be in the race for the Cot
ton Bowl spot and in that case any
bowl offer they accept would be con
tingent on the happenings for the
remainder of the season.
One team that will not be going to
a bowl is TCU, but the Horned Frogs
had their own bowl game last Satur
day — winning for tbe first time this
season.
The 24-17 decision over Texas
Tech, in which all the TCU points
came in the fourth quarter, was par
tially inspired by the wearing of pur
ple helmets for the first time since
the days when the Horned Frogs
were a powerhouse.
Author Dan Jenkins, who
attended TCU, had told a fellow
alumnus not long ago that all of
TCU’s championship teams in the
past had worn purple helmets.
Coach F.A. Dry ordered the
team’s silver helmets changed to
purple for the game.
“The kids were excited about it,”
said Dry. “I think they felt that they
were a part of the TCU tradition.”
But it also helped to have two
spectacular catches by Stanley
Washington and another by Bobby
Stewart in the fourth quarter. All
three of them went for touchdowns,
Washington’s second reception
going for 82 yards and the winning
Baylor’s 42-15 win over Arkansas,
combined with Texas’ 15-13 triumph
over Houston, brought the Bears
only their second title in the last 56
years.
And Baylor coach Grant Teaff, re
flecting on the difference between
this crown and the one his team won
in 1974, said there was no compari
son between the two.
“This was no miracle,” Teaff said.
“We’ve been ahead from the start. It
wasn’t like we were standing around
waiting for something to happen to
somebody else. In 1974 we lost three
of our first six games and we were
coming off a 2-9 season the year be
fore.
“This year we were coming off a
Peach Bowl championship. ”
Despite that the Bears were pick
ed as low as seventh this season in
the SWC and winning the crown was
heady business for the Baylor.
“I’d say things are pretty electric,”
said Teaff.
It was also a pretty good day for the
SMU Mustangs, who improved their
record to 7-2 with their 34-14 win
over Rice. SMU’s two losses have
been a total of six points.
It was the third straight win for
SMU since freshman quarterback
Lance Mcllhenny took over the
starting job.
Other than the Rice-Baylor,
SMU-Texas Tech and TCU-Texas
games next week, Texas A&M and
Arkansas will face each other in the
Frustration Bowl at Fayetteville.
The Aggies, 2-6 for the year, hope
to have quarterback David Beal back
for the Razorbacks, who could be en
route to one of their rare losing sea-
United Press International
NEW YORK — Tal Smith, fired
two weeks after bringing the Hous
ton Astros the most successful season
in their 19-year history, has been
named UPI’s major league Execu
tive of the Year for 1980.
Smith, 47, until two weeks ago the
president and general manager of
the Astros, received eight of 44 votes
cast by a panel of sports writers
around the country to edge out John
McHale, president and chief execu
tive officer of the Montreal Expos, by
one vote.
Gabe Paul of the Cleveland Indi
ans finished third with six votes.
Smith, who has spent 23 years in
baseball, saw a long association with
the Astros come to fruition this sea
son when the club survived a
weekend collapse at the end of the
season and won a one-game playoff
with the Los Angeles Dodgers to
gain its first-ever title.
The Astros then proceeded to en
gage the eventual world champion
Philadelphia Phillies in a thrilling
five-game National League playoff in
which four of the games went to extra
innings.
Just two weeks later, however,
Astros owner John J. McMullen
made the stunning announcement
that Smith would be let go and for
mer Yankee executive Al Rosen
would assume the post of general
manager.
“It’s a great honor and obviously
I’m very pleased,” Smith said upon
receiving the news. “I would have to
confess that the satisfaction has been
dulled somewhat by the events of the
last few weeks. We haven’t really
had much of a chance to savor what
would have been our finest hour in
baseball after 23 years. I appreciate
the honor and it has great meaning to
Under his guidance, the Astros
rose from a 64-97 record in 1975 to
establish themselves as a winner and
contender for years to come.
Although they tripled their attend
ance in four years, it was not enough
for McMullen.
“I was obviously stunned,” he
said. “I had no reason to expect or
anticipate it. It wasn’t the result of
any direct confrontation or clash or
anything of that nature. Within 24
hours of our loss in the final playoff
game he was in touch with Al Rosen.
I had no knowledge of that.
“I thought it was a great year for
this franchise. I think it follows that
after ayear like that, you expect to be
judged by the results.”
McMullen, in announcing the de
cision, indicated that Smith’s con
tract formed part of the problem.
Smith discounts this factor.
“There were still 13 months to run
and we never had any discussion or
deliberations,” he said. “I feel that’s
an artificial issue.”
McMullen also complained that
Smith had not accomplished enough
in five years.
“He said that if I couldn’t win in
five years, I couldn’t win in 10,”
Smith said. “Well, I think the vast
majority of the people who follow the
Astros do feel the club was a winner
and had made progress.”
Smith said he would take his time
before making any decisions regard
ing employment.
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