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Is Tide’s ranking misleading?
g By DAVID MOFFIT
$: UPI Sports Writer
:$ ATLANTA (UPl)—lt’s all so misleading.
$: There’s Alabama, now second behind Southern
California, making a bid for a second straight perfect
regular season and eyeing that mythical college
championship that eluded the Crimson Tide a year ago.
:$ Yet, the feeling, persists that even if Alabama should go
11-0 again and, assuming someone slips up on Southern
:$ Cal, be voted the nation’s No 1 team, one of the Big Eight
5: teams will burst that bubble in a bowl.
Alabama keeps winning, but not impressing the way a
£ national champion should.
:$ Don’t get us wrong. Alabama has a sound running game
with a lot of ball carriers, no great one like Johnny Musso,
but a lot of good ones. The Tide also has a sound defense,
:$ although not quite as tough as some of the defensive units
$: it has had in the past.
This combination, in a schedule that has brought the
% Tide face to face with only one nationally ranked team so
far (Tennessee which ’Barna came from behind to nip 17-
10 last Saturday), has given Alabama a 6-0 record and that
No. 2 ranking.
£ Alabama has one real test, against 6th-ranked
Louisiana State on Nov. 11, and one maybe test, against
§ 12th-ranked Auburn on Dec. 2, standing between it and
that second straight perfect season.
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Colorado’s Crowder
coach of the week
BOULDER, Colo. (UPI)—
Colorado Coach Eddie Crowder,
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the unemotional man on the
Buffaloes’ sideline, wants to
keep his image intact.
“I was really very calm,”
said Crowder, exhibiting a rare
smile after Colorado upset
previously unbeaten Oklahoma,
20-14, Saturday. “I just didn’t
want the team to think I didn’t
share their enthusiasm.”
Their enthusiasm was at a
peak Saturday. Colorado scored
two touchdowns—the first two
All five remaining games are at “home,” three in
Birmingham and the other two in Tuscaloosa.
The Alabama-Louisiana State game now is the biggest
game in the South for 1972. It would appear that the
winner gets the Southeastern Conference championship
and an Orange Bowl date with the winner of the Nebraska-
Oklahoma game —the same spot Alabama was in last
year prior to its game with Auburn.
Our respect for Alabama as a potential national
champion would increase with a win over LSU, but that
still wouldn’t convince us that Alabama can beat
Nebraska in a bowl game.
Most Alabama fans will take offense at this, but
Alabama was mighty lucky to beat Tennessee last
Saturday.
Coach Bear Bryant told listeners afterwards that he
went for a tie-producing (16-10) conversion kick with 1:48
left in the Tennessee game because “my coaches kept
telling us we had plenty of time (to score again).”
But the fact is that at that moment, Alabama, which
only minutes before was in danger of going down to
defeat, was playing for a tie—unwilling to gamble on a
two-point play for fear of the consequences.
Tennessee Coach Bill Battle thought the game would
end in a tie after that. He had convinced himself “When
they didn’t go for two I was sure we wouldn’t get beat,”
and planned to run out the clock.
scored against Oklahoma this
year—and a pair of field goals
while limiting Oklahoma’s of
fense, the most powerful in the
nation, to 238 yards and holding
the Sooner wishbone to 163
yards on the ground.
“It was the determination of
the team as a whole to get the
job done,” Crowder said after
being named United Press
International Coach of the
Week. “After looking at the
films I determined that every
player turned in a superior
game and this is what we as
coaches are shooting at.”
Colorado permitted the Soo
ners only 27 yards in the second
half before Oklahoma went on a
game closing 76-yard drive for
the final score “when our
players slackened a little.”
Crowder declined to single
out individuals for their perfor
mance, but he admitted quar
terback Ken Johnson, who
called every play of the game,
“is developing a great deal of
confidence and looked real
good.
“We have become so hero
oriented in sports that we lose
sight of the players who
discover how to lose theirselves
for a cause,” he said. “These
guys benefit the greatest when
they lose themselves and
become part of a team effort.”
But the balding coach, who is
in his 11th year at Boulder,
smiled and nodded when
reminded of sophomore Gary
Campbell’s 43-yard touchdown
run in the third quarter—which
was the first touchdown scored
against Oklahoma this year.
The run came the second time
Campbell carried the ball. He
had fumbled on the 10-yard line
his first appearance.
“That touchdown run of
Campbell’s was significant, but
all the men gave such an effort
there was no turning point,” he
said. “If there was one turning
point it was just plain
determination—a case of lock
jaw our guys had.”
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The Alabama got the ball back on an untimely fumble
by the Tennessee quarterback and then scored a winning
touchdown was the sort of break that keeps an unbeaten
string alive — but it doesn’t leave you with the feeling that
Alabama has the best college football team in the nation.
Alabama’s offensive stars this year are in the line,
especially 277-pound John Hannah and 245-pound Jim
Krapf. It is because of people like Hannah and Krapf that
Bryant has been able to get almost equal success from
eight different runners.
The closest thing to an offensive backfield star has been
quarterback Terry Davis. Davis’ personal statistics
haven’t been much to look at — he’s eighth in the
Southeastern Conference in passing and ninth on the list of
Alabama runners— but, as Bryant will tell you, he’s the
man who makes the Tide’s wishbone go.
That wishbone, with its variety of runners, has gone
well enough to average 267.5 yards per game on the
ground — 60 yards better than runnerup LSU which leads
the conference in total offense because it leads in passing.
LSU has a better overall offense and a better overall de
fense and that’s why one must question whether Alabama,
even if ranked No. 1 at that time, will be able to beat the
Bengals.
Like we said, it is misleading for Alabama to be ranked
as the second best college football team.
Griffin Daily News Wednesday, October 25, 1972
Page 9
Injures take toll
By United Press International
The simulated West Point Ca
det corps cheered Miami’s foot
ball drills Tuesday.
Two loudspeakers blared re
corded cheers over the practice
field as the Hurricanes pre
pared for their Saturday meet
ing with Army at West Point.
Coach Fran Curci figures the
lusty Cadet cheering can be an
upsetting factor and he wants
to familiarize his players with
it before the game.
Two key defensive players,
linebacker Hal Sears and de
fensive back Eldridge Mitchell,
missed the workout and are un
certain starters in the Army
game.
Injuries also plagued Tennes
see and Georgia Tech Tuesday.
Coach Bill Fulcher said back
up quarterback Tommy Turren
tine would miss the rest of the
season with a knee injury. The
Yellow Jackets take on Tulane
Saturday.
And backup quarterback
Gary Valbuena was calling sig
nals for Tennessee in the place
of Condredge Holloway, who
has a hip injury and probably
won’t play against Hawaii Sat
urday.
Vanderbilt added fullback
Remmers to its list of doubtful
starters for the Mississippi
game. He has a shoulder in
jury.
Injuries forced Tulane coach
Bennie Ellender to make chang
es in his lineup at guard and
defensive back. Auburn stressed
pass defense in its drills for
Florida State, whom Coach
Shug Jordan says he expects
“to throw a lot.”
Bear Bryant praised Ala
bama’s drills Tuesday as the
Tide prepared for Southern Mis
sissippi. “I thought we had a
fine practice,” said Bryant.
Mississippi State practiced a
gainst Houston’s veer-T forma
tion Tuesday while Ole Miss
concentrated on fundamentals
and conditioning for Vanderbilt.