THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1977
Page 7
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| HOUSTON — Using the “bum-
pivthatiBrooski” play in one game does
'one trie ot preclude employing it the next
e. But®, reek, says Houston Oilers head
1® each Bum Phillips, the proud in-
yts enter of the football oddity.
“One time in college we used it
mity,sevt nice in one game,” said Phillips,
heart da The Seattle Seahawks, no doubt,
e rendeii 'ill be prepared today for the
lesaslattj bumerooski” because the Oilers
treated!! sed it on a fourth-and-one situation
'philisii bt Sunday at Oakland.
. The Seahawks should not be too
jnfldent of stopping it, however.
The “bumerooski” springs forth
om a punting situation. Although
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Receivers get no respect'
Phillips teaches a number of var
iations off the play, the trickery he
used on the Raiders came from what
looked like a normal punting align
ment, with the punter deep and two
blockers three yards behind the line
of scrimmage.
According to the play’s design,
one of the blockers receives the
snap. That blocker, hereinafter
called the runner, quickly fakes a
handoff to an end running laterally
across the field and then hides the
ball in any way he can. In the pros
the runner can even kneel or sit on
the ball.
The crucial fakery depends on the
runner appearing as confused as
everyone else and forcing the de
fense to check out every possible
ballcarrier except himself. Then,
after maybe two or three seconds
and assuming everyone is properly
fooled, the runner goes the opposite
direction from the tacklers.
“I guess I’ve used it 30 times,”
said Phillips, whose coaching career
in Texas high schools, colleges and
the pros spans 27 years. “And this is
the least yardage we have ever got
ten with it.”
Rob Carpenter, the runner last
Sunday, became too anxious.
“He got antsy and didn’t wait long
enough before lighting out. Our
own linemen hadn’t even had time
to clear downfield,” Phillips said.
Another variation has the runner
slipping the ball between his legs to
a crouched lineman.
Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorni
has punted from the “bumerooski”
formation when no defender drop
ped back.
The play used at Oakland was
good enough for a first down, as
usual, but it ranked way down on
the list of successful “bumerooski’s. ”
Phillips’ memory of the play goes
back to Nederland High School,
where he claims to have used it to
score a dozen touchdowns.
There, however, he called the
play “fake punt right” and “fake
punt left.”
It took Phillips’ boss Bear Bryant,
the head coach at Texas A&M in
1957, to name the play after its in
ventor.
“Bear just laughed at first but I
finally convinced him to try it in
practice,” Phillips said.
Phillips has one bad memory of
the play. The Saturday after the Ag
gies put in the play, they tried it in a
crucial game against Rice. Lloyd
Taylor broke the “bumerooski” for
12 yards but was tackled by the last
Rice defender. A&M lost 7-6.
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ouser that this is the year of the
eventedl inning backs in the Southwest Con-
id second! rence - Those three pass receivers
ledicatedl fe closing in on more SWC records
rgetakesb Mall the bruising runners com-
Mcllbcjined.
Renfro, theTCU senior from Fort
I'orth Arlington Heights, already
Ids the career yardage record for
ptions and Saturday moved to
ithin five of the record for total
eer receptions when he recorded
Js 150th. SMU’s Jerry Levias set the
indard of 155 in the 1966-68 sea-
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(The last of Levias’ three career
arks may be safe from Renfro’s
islaught—Levias had 22
achdown catches and Renfro has
with only two games to play. But
nfro has eight TD catches for the
ason, needing only one to tie the
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ist effective long-distance
erators ever, now has 840 yards on
tches in his sophomore season,
at ranks him sixth on the all-time
e-season charts and 291 yards he
ld Levias’ one-year record, but
Little Rock speedster has only
e game remaining. Tolbert also
ds at least four receptions in his
at game of the year Saturday
linst Arkansas to move into the
fC top ten for most catches in a
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While Renfro is rewriting Levias’
records, Rice’s Houser is in excellent
position to rewrite Renfro’s records
next year. The junior from Dallas
Sunset has 106 career receptions to
stand eight among SWC all-timers
and needs 49 in his final 12 games to
catch Levias.
Meanwhile, back on earth, Texas’
Earl Campbell became the SWC’s
first-and the NCAA’s fifth-4,000 yard
gainer by storming for 153 in little
more than two quarters against
TCU. The Tyler senior now has
4,040 career yards and 1,341 for the
season. He’s 74 yards shy of the one-
season mark of 1,415 yards set by
Texas’ Roosevelt Leaks in 1973-with
two games to go.
Campbell has achieved his ’77 to
tals on 210 carries in nine games, an
average of 6.4 yards a whack. Leaks
carried 229 times in his record ten-
game season of ’73, averaging 6.2
yards a carry.
Then there are the place kickers,
who juggle the records every time
they tee it up.
Arkansas’ Steve Little, Texas
A&M’s Tony Franklin and Texas’
Russell Erxleben are so far out in
front in kicking that you’d think they
were leading a Cuban election. Not
only do Little and Erxleben share
the NCAA record of a 67-yard field
goal with Franklin right behind at 65
yards, but:
Little holds the SWC record of
50 career field goals, followed by
Franklin with 42, followed by Erx-
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