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By DAN BORUS WXYZ sportscaster. "But any poll Darryl Royal of Texas, whose'ton, who is on the way down. I
is inadequate." Southwest section is represented by must admit it is difficult."
filled with the sounds of crazed The Associated Press, which is six writers, is one who holds this Other polls are based upon a
drunks and marching bands, and one of the more prestigious polls, viewpoint. 1 complicated system of rankings,
the rest of what television des. founded its present system of rank- Actually this charge is only par- according to the team's scoring
Scribes as "the color and pageantry ings in 1936, replacing the less tially true. Three regions the East, ability, defensive acuity, schedule
of college football." And come fall exact Knute Rockne award for the Mid West (which includes Michi- toughness, etc. Mathematical for-
the major wire services and sundry best college grid team. Today its gan) and the Southeast have 12 mulas are employed, and still the
football experts indulge in a fav-; mechanics are the province of 58 writers apiece while the Plais complaints roll i. Those systems,
orite American pastime-football sportswriters throughout the na- (which encompasses the Big Eight) the argument goes, favor those
ontion. has but four. However, students teams which beat their opponents
poln of collegiate football will notice big, which humiliate rivals.
Based on subjective and objec- Dividing the country into eight that the Big Eight conference has Although many coaches piously
tive tests, polls have a far-reaching regions without regard to popula- not exactly been hampered in its intoned sentiments denying interest
effect on the game as it is present- tion, the Associated Press allows quest for poll supremecy, garner- in the results of the weekly Mon-
ly played. New plays are initiated local bureaus to name the prom- ing the top three positions in the day morning evaluation, poll watch-
and scores are piled on high all inent sportswriters in the area as final poll of last year. ing is as prevalent in Big Time
in the hopes of satisfying the whims grid selectors. Ballots must be;
of omnipotent pollsters who make received in New York by noonr
or break a season with a touch of ; uMonday and only 50 are used in the ? J. . . . . . :.:." .................. ". "r ::":..":.}:":":?.:.:}}.:}:...:.:
the typewriter. actual compilation of the rankings,
How the polls are constructeduand as not all 58 vote every week. Close "They are like the comics, they answer a
what they mean to football squadsI races, of course, bring out more!y
is a complicated and fascinating voters.
A m e r i c a n sports phenomenon. One of the complaints of the need for the people who want them."
"They are like. the comics, they coaches and fans is area bias, par-'-sportscaster Dave Diles
answer a need for the people who ticularly towards the East and the I
want them," says Dave Diles, Big Ten. Among others Coach.
STADIUM RESTAURANT Other complaints include ease in football schools as electric bugs inI
and PIZZERIA which the emotions of some of the Watergate.
Id ZZAwriters are swayed, the abuses Notre Dame, for one, is especial-f
338 S. State some coaches dish out to opponents ly open to this activity since it}
-. in order to impress pollsters, and lacks a conference membership
GREEK MENU the uncertainty and lack of clarity which would allow it to compare
every Tuesday & Thursday concerning the perennial and vital itself to a standard. Thus rankings
eeyusestiMn: "Whn's Number One?"

roversy
Sometimes a coach will use the
ratings to either prepare emotion-
ally for an upcoming loss, pad his
lead for later polls, or challenge-
the opposition.
Somepundits have suggested a
better way to satisfy the competi-
tive machismo instincts of Ameri-
can collegiate football through the
establishment of a niational playoff
system, akin -to that now in use
by college basketball.
A definite winner would be select-
ed as the result of the tourney play
and the actual champ would not
be based upon subjective choice, as
in 1969 when President Nixon an-
gered Pennsylvania by arbitrarily
designating Texas the top team
despite the similar records of the
Longhorns and Penn State.
The NCAA, governing body of
collegiate sport, has thus far turned
thumbs down on the proposal, cit-
ing possible damage to a player's
academic career and the prohibi-
tive length of the season.
No matter what the eventual
system chosen to discover the top
team, one problem still remains
for footballers-today's champ is
easily tomorrow's chump. And this
'team will fuel the polls for quite a
' long time to come.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S J.K. McKAY goes up for a pass only
to have it batted away by Illinoi's Bill Uecker. The number-one
ranked Trojans beat the Illini 55-20 in action last Saturday.

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Notre Dame, the school with hungry alumni who dwell in the
probably the premier football his- glory of South Bend history.
tory,is considered totreceive fav- Notre Dame's 1966 play serves as
orable fallout from the pollsters, a fine example of this charge of;
banking upon the ghosts of the vindictiveness in order to boost
Four Horsemen and Knute Rockne ratings.
to win the benefit of the doubt. After being criticized for their
How does a pollster compile his lack of aggressive play in their
rankings? "Poll Bowl" showdown with Michi-
Diles is a member of the Fabu- gan State, the Irish roared to a
lous 58 club. "I tend to look at the 51-0 shellacking of Southern Cal.
area of the country and judge on In a post-game interview, Notre
how solid is the football there," hea Dame Coach Ara Parseghian, ad-
says. "I couldn't rank Arizona mitted his wariness of the power
of the polling press, "Yes, I would'
State for instance, any higher than: say we went out to prove we are
ninth because, despite their rec- Number One and we did, didn't
ord, they only squeaked by Hous- we?"

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Ice finale clouded by ref riff

USTER DEMANDED

MOSCOW (A)-The final game
of the hockey series between
Team Canada and Russia could
be cancelled if a dispute over
referees which arose yesterday
is not settled, a canadian spokes-
man announced.
Canadian Coach Harry Sinden
termed the situation "serious"
and added "There could be no
eighth game."
Canada and Russia are tied-

with three victories each and one
game tied with the final match
of the series scheduled for to-
night.
The problem came up Wednes-
day when Sinden and assistant
tor Alan Eagleson were sum-
tor Alan Ferguson were sum-
moned to a meeting with Soviet
officials. Sinden said the Rus-
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Kirill Romanski, vice president
of' the Soviet ice hockey federa-
tion, and coaches Vsevolod Bor-
brov and Boris Kulagin were the
Russian negotiators. Andrei Star-
ovoitov, president of the Russian
association, was in Viennafor
an international meeting.
Eagleson said the Canadians
made their position clear-that
they will not accept two West
German referees for the crucial
final games-and left the Rus-
sians to make up their minds.
Following Sunday's game of-
ficiated by the two West Ger-
mans, Josef Ompalla and Franz
Baader, the Canadians called the
referees "incompetent" and re-
quested they not be assigned to
any further games.
"Two days ago we reached
agreement with .the Russians
that Uve Dalberg and Batya
would work the seventh and
eighth games," Eagleson said.
Dalberg is a Swede and Batya
is from Czechoslovakia.
"Now the Russians say they
agreed only for the seventh
game. They now insist on the
two West Germans and there's
no way we'll accept them."
Originally, Canada and Russia
rotated the choice of referees,
giving Russia the choice for the
eighth game.
When news of the Russians'
reneging reached scoring leader
Phil Esposito, he said:
"We might just as well quit
right now. If this happens I hope
they don't even put me on the
ice. We might as well give up
and let the Russians have it if
those guys work."
Paul Henderson, leading the
series in goals scored with six,
said, "I don't often get upset
but the last game they worked
I nearly popped one of them."
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