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Thursday, September 16, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Arm wrestler trains in bars
By DAN BOWERMAN
Sports Writer
If you get hustled into an arm wrestling match in a bar some night by a 5-9, 160-pound brown-haired 19-year-old, you'd better watch out.
Holman (right) sets to topple another challenger
The person doing the hustling might be Scott Holman.
Holman, Houston freshman, hasn't lost a match in the three professional arm wrestling tournaments he's competed in. He's the first of four championships—in coming in November.
Helman usually trains for the meets by trying to hustle competition wherever he can.
"THE BEST TRAINING for arm wrestling is arm wrestling," he said. "It's hard to pick up some competition in bars—arm wrestle for a beer. That's the best competition."
But he trains in other ways also.
Holman is on the men's gymnastics team. He works with weights and does other exercises every day with the team.
"You have to work with your own body weight because that's what you're using in arm wrestling," he said.
Some stunts he performs in gymnastics, especially on the still rings, help to develop the needed strength, he said.
HOLMAN'S MOST RECENT victory was during the Labor Day holiday in Houston when he won the World Professional Arm Wrestling Association
Southwest Regional Championships, which included contestants from a six-state region. That qualified him for the championship Nov. 28 in Los Angeles.
Holman, who competes in the men's lightweight division (160 and under), will be trying for a portion of the $10,000 prize money.
There are six divisions-four men's and two women's.
Holman's other victories came in the
Confederate Open in 1975 and the Texas
Battle of March 1976. Both plebs were in Houston.
HE HAS WON 16 straight matches, but they all haven't been easy, he said.
"I had one hard match in the Conference Open," he said. "I was against the defending champion, who had also won some national titles.
"in the Texas State meet, the first match was as tough as the last match, and as a matter of fact, I almost lost the last two."
Holman said he had come from behind to win those matches and injured his right arm in the process.
The injury—a muscle strain—wasn't bad enough to stop him from winning four easy matches at the regional championships.
"THAT WAS THE EASIEST meet I've bad." Holman said.
He said the easy victories were due to the peg board used in true arm wrestling. Other types of wrestling that don't involve a peg board are the peg board are called wrist wrestling.
Holman explained that in wrist wrestling, opponents hold on to each other's left hand, and that in arm wrestling they hold on to pegs with their left hands.
The wrestler who moves quickly gets an advantage in arm wrestling. Holman said.
The Confederate Open and the Texas State Championships were actually wrist wrestling meets.
Holman said that he expected about eight good arm wrestlers to be at the 200 championships, and that another 200 would compete there for the fun of it.
But for Holman, the tournament will be serious business.
"That money will help to pay for school," he said.
Football polls don't rate very high
Just how worthless the national college football team was made clear by the full fall season.
the preseason surveys, taken by the Associated Press and United Press International only two weeks ago, were removed to shamles after several so-called calls.
Keeping in mind that it was the first game of the season for both teams, it is still that the question would ever have to be asked.
One must remember that the only reason some of these games were considered up-
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Missouri, for example, was catapulted from relative obscurity (in the poll, that is) to sixth in the nation by a 46-3 victory over USC, eight in the press, the most recent win at all moved to sixth in the nation and the eighth-ranked team they beat dropped entirely?
sets is that the "experts" told us they were. They told us which teams were the best, and were even kind enough to list the top 20 teams for us.
Injuries hit 'Hawks
SURE, ITS only natural to try to pick the winners of certain games, just as it is to rank the top 20 teams in the country. There's nothing wrong with that.
what is wrong is that, to many people,
these polls are the last word in whether one
been moved to tight to join Al Roberts should Michaels be unable to play.
Tight end Jim Michaels, the Jayhawks' leading receiver this season with four completions, is a questionable starter for Saturday's game against Kentucky after reinjuring a hamstring in practice this week.
Coach Bud Moore said yesterday that reserve defensive end Jerry Calovich has
Calvich, however, still might see action against the Wildcats at defensive end because Les Barnes apparently suffered a slack back injury yesterday.
"If Michael's and Barnes are both injured," Moore said, "Calovich would have to play both ways because we don't have anybody else."
Royals' lead shrinks
The loss, coupled with Oakland's 5-2 victory over Minnesota, left Kansas City just 3½ games in front of the second-place A's in the American League West. A's
Davis battled for Bruce Boche after the Angels had loaded the bases against Doug Bird, 11-8, on singles by Dave Collins and he added plus an intentional walk to Bursty Torres.
Davis smashed Littell's first pitch to center field for the game winner.
So, it looks as if we're stuck with the polls us who is the best—a system that doesn't care.
Nolan Ryan, 14-17, scattered six hits to win his four straight game. He struck out nine and walked four.
The deadline for entries to participate in intramural women's flag football, men's and women's horseshoes and raceland is today. Applications to participate should be taken to the recreational services office in 208 Robinson.
THE BOwl games, the only other chance we might have of at least getting a better idea which team is No. 1, are also virtually locked up by tradition and by contract.
A description of how the two major polls are conducted might help explain why their value is minimal and why they seem so fickle.
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team is better than another. To take that stand, to quote Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, is hogwash.
Of course, that just isn't always possible. The regular season schedules are set several years in advance, and it's tough to predict which teams will be best in 1979. Also, most teams are locked into conference schedules.
The only way we can ever say one highly
critical thing is to get them out on the floor and let them
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The AP poll is of 61 sports writers and broadcasters, who rank 15 teams based on a 20-18-16-14-12-10-9.4 etc. point system. The team that gets the most points to their experience and where they live.
The UPI poll is of 42 college coaches from seven regions. Because most of the coaches see only a few of the top teams each year, they rely mostly on sports writers and broadcasters, many of whom vote in the AP poll, for deciding how to rank the teams.
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Of course, the most practical way to pick a national champion in college football would be to set up a national playoff system, which would be used for playoffs. More comprehensive proposals for playoffs have been presented to the NCAA, but it would be at least six years before a playoff system could be initiated, and then only if a playoff system was approved by the board.
Alas, the polls will go on, as will the predictions and the errors. We can only hope that they will be taken for what they're worth—and that isn't much.
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