1972 was the return of freshmen eligibility, but not until Page 131, with Washington State coach Jim Sweeney, was it even mentioned in the magazine.
In the Pacific Coast Conference preview, San Diego State coach Don Coryell touted quarterback Jesse Freitas and Isaac Curtis. “Coryell apparently will use Curtis, a running back at Cal, at wide receiver,” the magazine said, somewhat incredulously, not knowing what Coryell knew. That wide receivers would become a huge weapon, and Curtis was for many years in the NFL.
The Mid-West previews was written by Paul Hornung of the Columbus Post-Dispatch, who covered 341 straight Ohio State football games. As a kid, I always wondered, did the Packers’ Paul Hornung become a sportswriter? No. Two Paul Hornungs, both about the same age. The Mid-West included previews of the Ohio Conference -- Baldwin-Wallace, Heidelberg, Wooster, Mount Union, etc. – and I remember thinking as a kid why the Oklahoma small colleges couldn’t get covered.
Independents were covered extensively. Dozens and dozens of independents. From Notre Dame to Xavier (I never knew the Musketeers played football) in the Mid-West, from Penn State to Colgate in the East, from West Virginia to Virginia Tech to South Carolina in the Atlantic Coast, from Georgia Tech to Florida State to Miami to Southern Miss in the Deep South. How times have changed.
The Southwest – written by another writer I don’t remember, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Jim Trinkle – included the Lone Star Conference preview. The Lone Star in those days included Southwest Texas State, Texas A&I, Angelo State, Howard Payne, East Texas, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Sul Ross, Tarleton State and Abilene Christian. And that was a seminal year in the Southwest Conference – four new head coaches. Grant Teaff at Baylor, Emory Bellard at Texas A&M, Billy Tohill at TCU and Al Conover at Rice.
Out West, quite striking is how many schools no longer play football. Long Beach State, Cal State-Fullerton, Cal State-Los Angeles, Santa Clara, U.S. International, Loyola Marymount, St. Mary’s, San Fernando, Cal Poly-Pomona, Cal-Riverside, Chico State, Cal State-Hayward, San Francisco State. All have dropped football. All were featured in the 1972 Street and Smith’s yearbook.
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