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MONDAY, NOVEMBER
4&M stops TCU 52-23; now looks for cotton .
By MARK PATTERSON pen along the way, you have a place before leaving the game early in chance to get sor
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THE BATTALION Kago »
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1977
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
Post season bowl bids were up for
grabs Saturday as the Aggies flexed
their muscles and rushed past the
TCU Horned Frogs 52-23 before a
crowd of 28,563 in Fort Worth.
With the lopsided victory the Ag
gies have set the stage for their con
ference showdown with the Univer
sity of Texas this Saturday.
Texas can sew up the conference
crown and a trip to the Cotton Bowl
with a victory over the Aggies.
Though the Aggies still have to face
Houston Dec. 3, a victory over
Texas would be a giant step forward
towards Dallas.
But the loser of the showdown
won t be left out in the cold. Im
mediately following their victories
Saturday, both Texas and A&M
were extended Bluebonnet Bowl
invitations.
C.J. “Tex” Thornton, Bluebonnet
Bowl president and an A&M
graduate, extended the Aggies the
howl invitation in their locker room
after the game.
“As an A&M graduate (class
of44), the first thing I want to say is
on to the Cotton Bowl,” said
Thornton addressing the Aggie
team. “But if anything should hap
pen along the way, you have a place
in the Bluebonnet Bowl.”
Thornton also said that the same
invitation was extended to the Uni
versity of Texas following its victory
over Baylor.
But before the Aggies heard their
invitation to a post season bowl they
had the task of disposing of TCU.
And they took advantage of the op
portunity, as both individual and
team records fell by the wayside in
the Aggie romp over the Frogs.
• A&M amassed 687 yards total
offense, a new SWC record.
• A&M rushed for 606 yards, a
team record and five yards short
of the SWC single game rushing
record held by Texas.
• George Woodard gained 163
yards and broke the A&M
career touchdown record of 32
held by Joel Hunt. Woodard
got his 33rd touchdown midway
through the third quarter and
scored again in the fourth quar
ter.
• Curtis Dickey had a career high
175 yards rushing on only 20
carries.
• Freshman Mike Mosley, mak
ing his first start as an Aggie
quarterback, rushed for 98
yards and passed for 38 more
before leaving the game early in
the fourth quarter.
Mosley was a surprise starter for
the Aggies Saturday. David Walker
was suffering from bruised ribs and
the coaches decided to rest the
senior quarterback for next week’s
game. Mosley was called upon to
step in and lead the offense.
“I found out Tuesday that I was
going to start so I had all week to
prepare,” said Mosley after the
game. “I wasn’t worried playing be
hind the first team offense. I knew
they would open the holes for me.
Plus David (Walker) helped me all
week in practice.
“The only problem I had was get
ting my timing down with George
(Woodard). At the beginning of the
week I was off when I gave him the
ball up the middle, but we worked it
out.
And their work paid off. On the
Aggies first possession they marched
86 yards down the field with Mosley
carrying the ball for the final three
yards and the touchdown.
And the scoring derby had begun.
Aggie head coach Emory Bellard
was happy with his team’s perform
ance and complimented the younger
players on their play.
“I was happy that we finally got a
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ripper, Knute Hockney and the
our Horseman, owners of a some-
lowers,W 'hat chilling fight song, and by the
le College y a pretty good football team
is notsoif 977, will once again grace the Cot-
College Sli m Bowl with their presence.
Now the people who run th(
ets confintflame will sit around one more week
th sweaty palms to see who will
estheanim ice the Irish in their third trip to
-’orkevei® Dallas, where Notre Dame broke
leir 48-year bowl ban in 1970.
Will Notre Dame come to the
alsletks otton Bowl to play the Texas
onghorns, winners of 10 straight,
ossessors of the leading Heisman
rophy candidate and ranked No. 1
icausea^the nation.
Or will the Irish take on Texas
&M, a not bad football team itself
ut losers twice this season to
ichigan and Arkansas.
The answer to that little puzzler
e, said Flffl lould come next Saturday in the
1th renewal of a feud that is usually
worse than the average Sino-
ai’iet border skirmish.
But no matter who wins, tht
Midwest Conference is already as-
but
so is
Texas
sured of its richest bowl payoff in
history. Four teams from the league
— equaling the most ever — will
make trips to the Cotton, Orange,
Bluebonnet and Tangerine bowls
during the holidays and will bring
home a total of close to $2.5 million.
Seventh-ranked Arkansas, losers
only to Texas, plucked off the cov
eted Orange Bowl spot after de
stroying SMU, 47-7. Arkansas fans
threw oranges onto the field after
each touchdown, some of them hit
ting SMU coach Bon Meyer.
“I think they could have called a
penalty for throwing oranges on the
field, said Meyer. “But I’m glad
they didn t because it might have
caused a riot. “It was in very poor
taste to throw oranges, said Arkan
sas Coach Lou Holtz. I m very em-
barassed if our fans gave SMU a bad
time on the sidelines by throwing
them”
Then, after accepting the Orange
Bowl hid, Holtz said Miami had best
be prepared for a huge wave of Ar
kansas fans when the Razorbacks
show up to meet the winner of next
Friday’s Nebraska-Oklahoma game.
“I think it would be in poor taste
to
if we didn’t leave somebody
guard the bank,” he said.
The Blubonnet Bowl decided to
take whichever team — Texas or
Texas A&M — does not make the
Cotton Bowl. Bluebonnet officials
then quietly kicked themselves for
not making a run at Penn State,
which was briefly shut out of the
bowl picture before grabbing a
Fiesta Bowl spot. Instead the
Bluebonnet will have either Wash
ington or USC.
And the Tangerine Bowl people
were probably a little embarrassed,
too, since they announced Texas
Tech would come to Orlando to play
Florida State and then had to watch
Tech get crunched by Houston,
45-7.
Texas and Texas A&M warmed up
for their confrontation by whipping
Baylor and TCU respectively.
By DAVID BOGAAN
Battalion Staff
They’ve got the fever down in
Austin. Their Texas Longhorns have
the number one football team in the
nation and folks in the capital city
want everyone to know about it.
Chants proclaiming the Long
horns’ position at the top of the polls
echoed across Memorial Stadium
Saturday afternoon as coach Fred
Akers’ team increased its chances of
securing a national championship by
defeating Bylor 29-7.
Fans, wearing hats that looked
like footballs with protruding horns,
extended their arms toward the
blimp and enthusiastically showed
the nation, via network television,
their popular second down hand
signal.
Shops along the drag have deco
rated their windows for the occa
sion, no doubt in hopes of decorat
ing the interior of their cash regis
ters, as cashiers sell anything and
everything that is orange and white.
And by now t-shirt and bum-
persticker companies have designed
plenty of products to accomodate
the fans of a national championship
team, should the Longhorns fulfill
their dreams.
Perhaps the atmosphere in Austin
is best exemplified by the UT secu
rity guard who said that he signed
three autographs just because he
worked in the Texas locker room.
Everyone is on the bandwagon
down there. And who can blame
them. In a country that places so
much importance on competition
sports, a number one football team
is nothing to be modest about.
Of course, there are those who
argue that Texas is not a number
one team but a one man team, refer-
ing to Earl Campbell, the Long
horns’ Heisman Trophy candidate.
This argument can never be proven
because any situation that does not
include Earl Campbell on the
Longhorn team is purely hypotheti
cal. Campbell is there, he is healthy
and he is ready to play the Aggies.
The Longhorn fans are just as ecs
tatic about Campbell as they are
about the rest of the team. Texas de
fensive end Tim Campbell, Earl’s
younger brother who resembles
Earl in appearance, said that people
have met him (Tim) on the street
and said, “Good game, Earl, can I
have your autograph?” When the
younger Campbell replied that he
was not Earl, they said, “That’s all
right, sign it Earl anyway,” which
he did.
“Earl Campbell for President,”
one stadium sign announced at last
Saturday’s game. One almost ex
pected the lights in the windows of
the UT tower to spell out giant E s
and C’s.
Next Saturday the hoopla of Aus
tin will pick up and travel to the hul
labaloo of College Station for the
game between the Southwest Con
ference s oldest rivals. Whether the
orange and white banners will wave
as high after the game as before re
mains to be seen.
chance to get some of the younger
players in a ballgame,” said Bellard.
“Mosley did an excellent job for the
first time out. He looked good in
there.
“TCU played the middle tough in
the first half. That gave Dickey a
chance on the outside runs.
“In the second half they brought
their linebackers up to the line and it
loosened up the middle for Woodard
to break through.
“That’s the way our offense is sup
posed to work. ”
While the Aggies were running
wild, the TCU offense couldn’t find
it’s feet this Saturday afternoon.
Though the Frogs were held to 37
yards rushing for the day, TCU quar
terback Steve Bayuk and the TCU
receivers teamed up to pierce the
Aggie secondary for 260 yards pass
ing.
And the Frogs set some records of
their own in the contest.
Wide receiver Mike Renfro, last
year’s all-conference receiver, set a
SWC receiving record with his 159th
catch of his career in Saturday’s
game. Renfro broke Jerry LeVias’
record with his touchdown catch in
the second quarter.
Renfro also caught nine passes in
the game, a personal high for him in a
single game.
Frog quarterback Bayuk was 20 for
38 in the game, and he also led the
Frogs in rushing. Bayuk accounted
for 46 yards on the ground while the
rest of the TCU team was held to
minus nine yards rushing.
Although the Aggies dominated
play against the hapless Frogs, their
test will come this Saturday against
the number one team in the nation.
Aggie fullback George Woodard
seemed to convey the feelings of the
A&M team following its lopsided
victory.
“We were looking at TCU first,
but now we can look at Texas. The
Texas game is the number one game
of the year at this time. We ll have to
be ready for it.”
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news from the Batt.
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