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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1977
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nbeaten
are the Ags
Sh-h-h. Keep it down. Someone
might hear. Nobody is supposed to
know the Aggies are still in the
Southwest Conerence title chase.
So just keep it quiet, wouldja?
While both the Texas A&M Ag
gies and the University of Texas
Longhorns have identical 4-0 rec
ords in league play this year, it
seems the conference crown has
been conceded to the Horns. The
Cotton Bowl Committee has already
given speculation to a Texas-Notre
Dame match-up in this year’s
classic.
One can hardly wonder why,
what with Texas currently ranked
No. 1 in the nation and the Irish
being the best team around not
bound by a conference to other
major bowls. Hosting the possible
national champion would return
prestige to the Cotton Bowl which
has been missing in recent years.
And there are others reasons the
Longhorns are being considered a
shoe-in. Texas leads the league in
both total defense and total offense
and ranks within the top five in the
nation in each category.
The Texas first team defense has
allowed only two touchdowns all
season while the offense averages 40
points per outing. The numbers are
definitely in the Longhorns’ favor.
Another reason: Earl Campbell.
Enough said.
It’s an interesting little under
cover public relations campaign
Texas has going in endorsing
Campbell as a Heisman trophy can
didate. While Oklahoma State’s
Terry Miller receives an eight-page
spread in the OSU football
brochure, Campbell is limited to
just 14 lines in the Texas booklet.
The big to-do recently has not
been over Campbell as a candidate,
but over the lack of information and
statistics on him being distributed
by the UT Sports Information De
partment. Jones Ramsey’s staff has
drawn nothing but praise for their
non-campaign for Campbell.
It all boils down to a prime exam
ple of reverse psychology. Texas is
able to get more publicity for
Campbell by underpublicizing him,
typecasting him as an underdog,
while the huge p.r. campaigns given
other Heisman candidates seems to
have a negative effect. Thus, lack of
publicity might earn Earl a trophy
for his mantlepiece.
Also going “unnoticed” are the
Texas Aggies of Emory Bellard. Un
impressive performances against
Baylor and Rice have had those who
know begin to count the Aggies out
of contention.
Those folks had better readjust
their thinking after viewing A&M’s
awesome second half comeback at
the expense of SMU.
* The Aggies have had the appear
ance of a team ready to explode for
several weeks. Humiliated by
Michigan, chastised after the Baylor
and Rice games, pushed around in
the first half against SMU, the Ag
gies refused to roll over and die. In
stead of quitting, the team faced the
music and, following Bellard’s ad
vice, they carried the fight to the
12 Pag
Ponies.
It was a different team 1
peared for that final 30 minutes li
Aggies muzzled their detractors,i
the meantime, by playing soi
hardnosed football. All year b \/ol. 71
opponents have been saying Ait
was not as “physical” as theyli
expected. Mustang Coach lit
Meyer gave witness that the As
could be “physical” when I
wanted to.
“A&M is a very physical foott
team,” he said. “Our injuriesreiB
showed in the second half. % ^
you lose vour main guys on defeij
it takes the guts out of your dukj
Aggie quarterback Daivd Wal
played perhaps the finest game
his career, giving the offense am
needed weapon to combat deferis
stacked to stop George Wooli
and Curtis Dicke
bi
cey.
The A&M defense came throiii
with its best pass rush oftheseasa rrideaki
constantly hurrying SMU passr ough Sri
Mike Ford. The Aggie deferrfg I be ret
also contained the running gu tims of
better than any time this seasa wired ai
limiting the Ponies to 52 yardsi bngwat
the ground. Gov. Ge
While others may be wanting imate sc
give the Longhorns the leap * n
crown with four games remaininjl ve< ^ a '
be played, the Aggies apparetl ffy nn >
are not among them. They still hi ! scene,
a stern test coming up next s we [] ec |
when Arkansas comes to town( te| . s (l | i
the first time in three years.Ii d,
weeks later the Aggies resume c EST
tilities with the Longhorns.
But until then, mums the woill
Snap, crackle, pop
Owner chastised again
Aggie quarterback David Walker loses his grip on the foot
ball as he is smashed by SMU defenders on the Mustangs’
5-yard line. But teammate Russell Mikeska caught the fumble
on the bounce, scoring the Aggies’ go-ahead touchdown in
the fourth-quarter. Walker rushed for 182 yards, threw two
touchdowns and scored another himself as the Aggies beat
the Mustangs 38-21 last Saturday.
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ARLINGTON — Texas Rangers owner Brad Corbett
claims the baseball commissioner’s office privately has
threated his team with action regarding “tampering”
with free agent Larry Hisle unless the Rangers refrain
from drafting the Minnesota outfielder Friday.
Corbett said the team would take its chances and
draft Hisle, perhaps No. 1.
“We will not be bullied,” Corbett said Wednesday.
“We will do everything possible to sign him (Hisle).
Yes, we will go ahead and draft him.”
According to the Rangers, Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn’s top aide, Sandy Hadden, Tuesday telephoned
Rangers attorney Dee Kelly from New York and told
him Kuhn had decided the Rangers — in particular,
general manager Dan O’Brien -— were guilty of tam
pering.
Kelly said Hadden offered some private advice:
forget about drafting Hisle in Friday’s free agent draft
and the commissioner would impose a light sentence
on O’Brien and the Rangers. Kelly said Hadden also
implied that if the Rangers drafted Hisle, then a\>
heavy sentence would he forthcoming.
Last year Kuhn suspended Atlanta owner li
Turner for a full year after declaring him guilty oftj
pering with San Francisco outfield Gary Matthews !tt -
When Corbett returned to town from a business!!
Wednesday, he found a resignation on hisdeslth
O’Brien and Kelly waiting in his office to tell him ah
Hadden’s call. Corbett was not pleased and refused J
accept O’Brien s resignation, |
“The facts in this case are totally out of proportios
the ruling. I can’t believe the commissioners ml
would he negative — if it is that,” Corbett said.“Aji
I must say that the only thing I have togoonisi
conversation between Mr. Kelly and Mr. Hadden
“I have tried to reach the commissioner butU
been unsuccessful so far.”
Corbett demanded that Kuhn announce the verd
publicly.
The tampering charge came from an incident*
Sept. 19 sports media luncheon in Dallas.
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