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II maye o I nt BA I 1 ALIUIV TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1977 Kicking game made the difference By JAMIE AITKEN Battalion Editor Sports writers jammed the Texas Tech locker room after the Red Raiders’ 33-17 loss to the Texas Ag gies, pressing the big question: Would the game have been differ ent if star quarterback Rodney Alli son had not been sidelined in the first quarter? Head coach Steve Sloan answered with a very impress ive reply: T think great teams over come injuries. I don’t think we could have played any harder.’’ It was a noble statement from a man who had seen his Red Raiders, led by a second-string quarterback, hold the outcome of Saturday’s con test in doubt for all but the final minutes of the game. The Raiders finally fell under the pressure of a fine Aggie kicking game that kept Tech deep in their own territory the entire final period. The battle on the field nevertheless represented the efforts of two great teams. The match-up was expected to be close, and was in fact a more heart stopping game than the final score implies. With Allison out early with a broken bone in his lower left leg, the pressure should have been less ened for the Aggies in the minds of many fans. But just as Allison ably commanded the Raiders against the Aggies last year when he came off the bench to replace injured first- stringer Tommy Duniven, the Raiders’ Tres Adami took over with no noticeable let-up in the game plan. “You always try to be ready,” Adami said. “I kind of expected I’d have to go in. We didn’t change any thing Rod was doing. We stuck with what we had because it wasn’t until the last that it broke open. ’ It was a sudden rout, particularly with the final seven points accumu lated in the flash of an interception by the Aggies’ Roderick Reed with 22 seconds remaining on the scoreboard. Adami recounted his performance in the quiet of a dazed Raider locker "I did a lot of stupid things...! started forcing things when we got behind. They had such a good kick ing game, they kept us back and I started forcing passes.” It was as Aggie head coach Emory Bellard had predicted the week be fore; the team with the kicking game would finally come out on top. Sloan agreed, and afterwards explained, “The difference in the game was field position...in the fourth quarter it was pretty much of a factor. It was in that final period that the foot of Tony Franklin took the game away from a stubborn Raider de fense. Franklin added three points to the A&M board on every Aggie possession but one in the last quar ter, bringing the Aggies from be hind to a nine point lead before Re ed’s determined run-back finished the game. Tech’s star defensive end Richard Arledge said of the Raiders’ at tempts to stop the Aggie scores, “When they’ve got a kicker like Franklin it’s hard to keep them off the board. ” A&M punter David Appleby also kept the heat on, wearing down Tech’s attempts to put the ballgame out of reach by keeping in consistently poor fieldposil Between Appleby’s punli; Franklin’s booming kick-offs,j. as a staunch A&M defense, Raiders never advanced!)^ th eir own 20-yard line durin) entire fourth quarter. But the game proved Ink hard-fought as expected. Itejj no surprise to hear Bellard deik "When two teams are equal ways comes down to the game and that’s what hap] here.’’ J Vol. / 16 P; Allison out four week' Carl Grulich storms in on Rodney Allison, dropping him for a 19-yard loss. Grulieh’s taekle broke a bone in Allsion’s left foot. 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