Page 8 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1977
Sports
Aggies soar past Jayhawks, 28-14
By PAUL ARNETT
Battalion Sports Editor
In the heat of a late summer af
ternoon, a sporadic Aggie team de
feated the Kansas Jayhawks, 28-14.
“It was the hottest I have ever felt
during a football game,” coach
Emory Bellard said. “It was just like
a furnace out there on the field.
On that field, 51,454 people
watched the Aggies play well at
times and poorly at times. It wasn’t
a bad game though, considering it
was the first of the season.
“I thought we played a good first
game,” Bellard said. “Up until that
fumble in the third quarter, we
played real consistent.
“We had a few mistakes on of
fense, but the big play gave us a lift
when we needed it.’
Aided by two Kansas fumbles
deep in its own territory and a 51-
yard touchdown jaunt by George
Woodard, A&M scored three of its
touchdowns in a 4:34 span.
“I had something to prove today, ”
Woodard said. “A lot of things have
been said about my weight, but I
proved today that I could still run.
Curtis Dickey proved he could
run, too. His 48-yard touchdown
run accounted for the Ags’ other
"A big hole opened up for me on
the right side of the line,” Dickey
said. “All I had to do was run
through it.”
Dickey almost had another
Experience, precision
could’ve helped Kansas
By JAMIE AITKEN
Battalion Editor
Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
The general consensus in the
Jayhawk locker room after a 28-14
loss to the Texas Aggies was that
with a little more experience and a
few less mistakes Saturday’s outing
might have ended differently.
Such is the post mortem expected
from a club that admittedly is in the
throes of rebuilding, having lost 21
lettermen from last season.
Junior Tackle Mike Beal, who led
the Jayhawks defense with 13 tack
les for the afternoon, summed it up
for the squad.
“If it hadn’t been for a couple of
mistakes we would have been a lot
closer. But we had some mental let
downs. I’m really disappointed in
our playing...we could have done
better.
Kansas coach Bud Moore was a
bit more pleased with the team he
had said faced “extreme inexperi
ence problems’ during pre-season
training.
“I think our team put in a good
effort. Sure, we need a little more
experience and a few more horses.
But we played an outstanding foot
ball team. It’s no disgrace to lose to
a team like that.
The Jayhawks, under the unex
pected leadership of second-string
quarterback Brian Bethke, kept the
final loss from entering the books as
a romp with inspired third period
play resulting in the two Kansas
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Bethke blamed his own inexperi
ence for the absence of more Kansas
touchdowns.
“I think I stunk, to be honest
about it. I made a lot of mistakes I
shouldn’t have...it's something I
have to work on. But I think if you
took out the interceptions and fum
bles, it would have been another
story.”
If you took out the 28 on the
Aggie scoreboard and replaced it
with 0, Kansas would have gone
home happier, too. It’s a point the
Jayhawks well understood.
“I know it sounds like we re bad
losers,” Beal admitted. “But
everyone could have done better.
Beal agreed any match against a
deep Aggie club would be a fight,
but he sang few praises of Saturday’s
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ended.
“I didn’t think the guy would
catch me, Dickey said. “Time and
the field just ran out on me.
The Aggies threatened to run
away and hide from Kansas in the
first half. The offense scored 21 un
answered points, while the defense
held Kansas to just 118 total yards.
siveness hurt the defensive effort. A
“razzle-dazzle” fullback pass re
sulted in an 80-yard touchdown. A
perfect pass by Norris Banks and
overcommittment by cornerback
Greg Clark resulted in Kansas’ first
touchdown.
“Once a man gets to the outside^
“Our defense played a real fine
first half, Bellard said. “They were
aggressive throughout the game.
Our biggest assest on defense is our
quickness and our depth. We have
26 guys on our defense who have a
lot of aggressiveness. ”
In the second half that aggres-
“We had some big defensive mis
takes in the second half,” Bellard
said. “But they were all due to over
committment. We can always cor
rect those.
we let him do, then you can
good-bye.’
This week Bellard’s Bunchtai
to the Blue Ridge
Virginia. They will face a
Tech team that is very simiklol
Jayhawks.
The Gobblers run a wishbone,
fense, and have an odd man
sive line. Tech is a much ii
ball club and one which playsivel
horn
said. “They put a man up
in for a tough football game.'
Aggie offense.
“I don’t think they put together
anything steady. That 51-yard
(touchdown) run by Woodard. . .
that’s not what I’d call a sustained
drive.
“I bounced off Woodard a couple
of times. He’s not that tough but
he’s big and hard to bring down. I
think (halfback Curtis) Dickey was
the better runner. He’d just as soon
run over you.
“They did everything we ex
pected them to, Bethke said of the
Aggie game strategy. “We came
back fighting in the second half after
we got our senses together. If we
had had another quarter it might
have been a different score.”
Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
Hindsight is always 20-20.
George Woodard, all 280 pounds of him,
scored three touchdowns and rushed for
150 yards. The junior runningback was taken
A&M women gymnast
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By MARTHA MANIORD
Why would the Texas A&M wo
men’s Gymnastics Team be working
out five days a week, three hours
each day now when their first meet
is not until the end of October?
According to Jan Fambro, the
team’s coach, the outlook for the
women’s gymnastics team is great
for this year.
“This is the first year we have a
chance to send one gymnast, maybe
two, or maybe even the whole team
to nationals’ Fambro said
enthusiastically. “Our Class I team
should win state this year without
any problem.
Previous to this year, Texas A&M
gymnasts competed in class levels
I, II, and III in competition, how
ever this year, Fambro said, Texas
A&M women gymnasts will com
pete in only the top two levels of
competition, Classes I and II.
“We re pushing for an upper level
team this year,” Fambro asserted,
explaining that several of their
meets would be out of state. The
team will compete in two meets in
Oklahoma this year, one in Kansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arkan-
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“The more we get out of state and
the better our team is known, the
better gymnasts we ll attract,”
Fambro said.
There are nine gymnasts compet
ing for the women’s team this year.
Women competing on the Class I
team are: Tanya Hrabal, Tina Mar
tin, Kathy Pruett, and Patti Sloat.
Competing on the Class II team are:
Courtney Bonniwell, Cindy Gre-
million, Debra Hernandez, Candy
Rasmussen, and Barbara Spiller.
Four of these gymnasts are om
etary scholarships, She ai
she has seen much improve:
during her three years ofeoacli com I
Texas A&M. “The first yearl
here we didn’t win anythin}
year our Class II and III tea®
state and Tina Martin, our
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