Page 6 THE BATTALION
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By paul McGrath
Battalion Sports Editor
Sooey. Sooey Pigs. Sooey.
The hog calls sounded jubilation
in the Ozarks as the Arkansas
Razorbacks combined a stiffnecked
defense and an opportunistic offense
to throw the Texas A&M Aggies out
of War Memorial Stadium on their
ears with a 31-6 thrashing.
It might have been better to say
sooey for the Razorback defense and
phooey for the A&M offense, as the
Aggie attack sputtered and fizzled
like a wet firecracker.
The Aggies lost the ball six times,
five via fumbles and once on a David
Shipman interception. All told, the
Aggies dribbled the football nine
times.
The Texas A&M offense certainly
was in the Christmas spirit, handing
Arkansas gift touchdowns with turn
overs on the four-yardline and a
fumble recovery in the endzone for
a score. The Hogs also got a field
goal after a fumble recovery on the
Aggie 18.
So inept was the Aggie offensive
performance that they were held to
-7 yards in the disastrous third quar
ter which saw Arkansas put 17
points on the scoreboard.
“This is just as an embarrassing a
situation as you can have,” said a
downhearted Emory Bellard. “It’s
embarrassing for the university and
it’s embarrassing for everybody. It
was an absolutely pathetic perform
ance and I take full responsibility
for it.
“Arkansas is to be congratulated.
We did win a co-championship.
We re not going to the Cotton Bowl;
they’re going to the Cotton Bowl.
We re going to the Liberty. I don’t
know anything else I can say,”
added the coach who guided the
Aggies to ten straight wins before
meeting his match.
The Razorback defense had its
finest moment, dominating the line
of scrimmage and limiting the Ag
gies to 149 yards total offense. The
Farmers didn’t get a first down in
the second half until 12:22 was left
in the ball game.
Fullback George Woodard was
held to 30 yards in nine carries, al
though playing with a hurt foot.
Bubba Bean had almost half of
A&M’s rushing yardage with 68
yards on 17 totes.
Freshman quarterback Keith
Baker avoided a whitewash with a
24-yard scamper for six in the final
period. His run came on a busted
play, which typifies the' kind of day
it was on this afternoon in Arkansas.
“They (the Arkansas defense)
didn’t do anything we didn’t expect
them to. (At halftime) there was no
thing to adjust to. What we had
been running all week was what we
needed to run,” said Shipman,
whose lack of proper timing was
evident and was later replaced by
Baker.
T don’t know how many fumbles
we had or how many we lost, but
you can’t win doing that,” said stel
lar A&M offensive tackle Glenn
Bujnoch. “We got down in that hole
there for a while and couldn’t get
out. We spent the whole third quar
ter down there.”
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The farthest A&M advanced in
the third period was their own 23.
“They stunted on us a little bit,
but we knew what they were going
to do. They just pursued real well.
They were quick and they go to the
ball,” Bujnoch said of the Hog de
fense.
“Well, it shouldn’t have made any
difference,” Shipman said concern
ing the stunts and blitzes. “Our
blocking scheme is supposed to
handle any linebacker charge.” The
Aggie quarterback would give no
answer to the question as to
whether he thought A&M stayed
too long with its original game plan.
All of the Aggie plays are called from
the sidelines.
The Arkansas offense, on the
other hand, was having no such
problems. They rolled up 267 yards
against the vaunted A&M defense
which always had its back to the
wall.
It was the arm of Scott Bull that
did most of the damage. The oft
criticized Razorback signal caller
connected for a 28-yard score in the
first half and set up another
touchdown with a 35 yard strike to
his tight end Doug Yoder. Bull also
gained 47 yards on the ground and
put across the Hogs’ final score on a
four-yard run.
Previously, the top ranked Aggie
defense had surrendered no more
than 14 points in one game and had
not allowed more than one
touchdown in a single quarter of
play.
It was the defense however, that
kept the Aggies in the game as long
as they did. They stopped the Ar
kansas ground game effectively and
made several key turnovers as the
Hogs gave up the pigskin four
times. But, the A&M offense could
not capitalize as well as their Arkan
sas counterparts.
The Aggie defense did finish the
year as the nation s best defensive
team, winning the team defense
title by four yards over Alabama
(2042 to 2046). They ended the year
by also claiming the rushing defense
crown, allowing an average of 80.3
yards per outing.
Arkansas lost its position as the
conference’s leading offensive team
with Texas Tech taking the honors.
The Hogs fell from second to
seventh nationally in the rushing
department.
More importantly though, the
Razorbacks get to venture into the
Cotton Bowl arena against Georgia
by virtue of their being out of the
cotton patch longer than the Aggies
or Texas.
The Aggies, who may topple from
their number two spot, had their
dreams of a possible national cham
pionship dashed, but will have the
chance to save face as they play the
USC Trojans in the Liberty Bowl
December 22.
Bellard’s Bunch ends the regular
season at 10-1, while Arkansas is
9-2. This is A&M’s third co
championship and Arkansas’ fifth.
Texas A&M will go to a bowl
game for the first time in eight
years. But for the 19 seniors who
served as captains on that fateful day
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The dejected look on Texas A&M Head Coach Emory
Bellard’s face was typical of all Aggie fans as the home team
took a 31-6 beating from Arkansas.
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