19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE...
Sirs:
No! No! No! No! No! Pick Notre Dame, pick USC, pick UCLA, pick the Cincinnati Bengals, for Pete's sake. What have we Boilers ever done to deserve this assured plethora of ill fortune—the curse of impending doom manifest in the super whammy associated with an SI No. 1 selection in anything (College Football, Sept. 9)?
J. E. LUEBERING
Cincinnati

Sirs:
You guys make me laugh. Purdue No. 1? That's the funniest thing I've heard since you rated Notre Dame a No. 1 contender last year. Leroy Keyes and the whole Purdue team put together don't match up to O. J. Simpson and John McKay. O. J.'s got more orange juice than ever!
HORATIO J. YILOSLAVITCH
Fresno, Calif.

Sirs:
Although I am not wholeheartedly satisfied with your No. 6 rating of Alabama, I do commend you for being one of the few magazines to rate them in the Top Ten. I'm glad you know that a Top Ten without 'Bama just isn't right. Roll, Tide!
TOMMY KELLY
Jasper, Ala.

Sirs:
I noticed a tiny error in your fine magazine. You placed a number "5" before Penn State. The correction? No. 1.

Mistakes will happen. I only hope Penn State Coach Joe Paterno didn't notice it. I'm lookin' forward to the weekly analyses by Mervin Hyman, the greatest.
HAROLD K. WILLIAMS
Carlisle, Pa.

Sirs:
Not to have selected Arizona State, the most highly regarded team in the Western Athletic Conference, among your Top 20 collegiate elevens is not to have learned the lessons of recent gridiron history, e.g. year-end rankings, bowl records and intersectional performances. It seems to me that the time has come when at least one WAC eleven should be chosen on the basis of what is happening in the here and now in college football.
WILES HALLOCK
Commissioner
Western Athletic Conference
Denver

P.S. I felt this way before becoming commissioner, too.

Sirs:
Your College Football Issue was very interesting. But what happened in the Small College section? You left out one of the best small college powers in the Midwest and in the nation: Parsons College. This year, as in previous years, Fairfield will be the Football Capital of Iowa.
PETER S. TIEWS
Fairfield, Iowa

Sirs:
Scratch the unbeaten season you said Fairmont State might have. On September 7, Whitewater beat Fairmont 16-14 on a 40-yard field goal by Neil Hanson. If I were you I would send someone up here to cover our 1968 NAIA Champs.
SCOTT SKINNER
Whitewater, Wis.

Sirs:
Your College Football Issue was excellent. It covered the best teams and players in the country.
WILLIAM MARTIN
Connellsville, Pa.