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THE BATTALION Page 13
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1978
Cowboys ride Colts
United Press International
IRVING — th e rubble of
yias’ almost enibarrasing 38-0
[ismembernient of the Balti-
nor e Colts Monday night there
■! great deal of talk about
Llnt'a different game it might
Le been if Bert Jones had
Bayed. ,
I “You just don t lose a quarter-
jack like that and regroup over-
Lht ” is the diplomatic way
yias coach Tom I^ndry put it.
“Baltimore surely wasn t the
am it would have been if Bert
lad been in there, " added safety
ftarlie Waters.
"Their passing game would
,e been a whole lot better if
aes had played,” chimed in de
rive tackle Jethro Pugh.
But over in his particular
Imier linebacker Thomas Hen-
ion, who is well known for
rhing to his own music, was
I no mood to dish out sympathy.
“What can you say? We have a
/nasty,” Henderson began. T
, q not ashamed to say it and I’m
it scared to say it. We do have a
eat defensive team and we are
ing to heat a lot of people.
“And since this game was on
Monday night football a lot of
jams cir •ound the league got a
Jiance to see what a world
pion looks like.’
[Without question Baltimore
[as in an almost intolerable posi
tion without Jones, the free spi
rited quarterback who had to sit
out the season opener with a
slightly sprained shoulder. That
left things to Mike Kirkland, a
third-year player with little ex
perience who was in over his
head.
But Jones does not play de
fense and on Monday night not
many others played defense for
the Colts, who the Cowboys
made their 14th straight opening
game victim. It was also the
150th victory for Landry, moving
him into a fifth place tie with
one-time New York Giants coach
Steve Owen on the all-time win
ning list.
Among the highlights:
— Dallas rolled up 583 yards
total offense, second best per
formance in its history.
— Staubach threw four
touchdown passes, including a
91-yarder to Dorsett — second
longest in the Cowboys 19 years.
Staubach completed 16 of 22 for
280 yards and had a streak of 11
straight completions (equaling
his own club record) when he left
the game late in the third quar
ter.
— Dorsett not only caught the
91 yarder for a score but broke
off runs of 46 and 78 yards. He
gained 147 yards on the ground
(the best performance in the
NFL’s opening weekend) and
caught 107 yards worth of passes.
SWC membership No. 1 goal
Improving NTSU wants in
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
Just what does it take to become a
member of the Southwest Confer
ence? Don’t pose that question to
North Texas State University' Athle
tic Director and head football coach
Hayden Fry if you hope to get an
answer. He’s been trying to find
what it takes for the past six years.
And he still doesn’t have a solution.
“Becoming a member of the
Southwest Conference is our
number one goal at North Texas, it’s
what we live for,” said Fry after his
team’s 49-0 victory over UTEP
Saturday night. “But the main prob
lem we have to overcome is the
image this school holds. Most
people, especially those in positions
important to our gaining admission
into the conference, don’t think we
merit conference membership.
“And that’s what I can’t under
stand. Since I’ve come to North
Texas (in 1973 after an 11-year head
coaching job at SMU) this athletic
program has developed into one of
national caliber. Our recruiting has
been upgraded along with our athle
tic budget and facilities. I just don’t
know what we need to do to get rec
ognized.’’
gie notes
ducational television
[Vho taught Tony Franklin to
6c? “no one,” says Franklin. “I
picked it up from watching Jan
Stenerud (Kansas City) on TV. ” De
rive end Eddie Heath says Texas
the best offensive line he faced
i® year. “They executed their
Bocks better than anyone, although
Kansas afso was very tough. ’ Adds
KktW. “Out defense this year will
pla\ much smarter football.
;yeari®arly last spring, safety Carl
ity. AjiCllich was preparing for spring
i C: trai .ing and contemplating his
x)unti«<B' or season at A&M. Coach
dry «® or y Bellard informed him about
■ freshman red-shirt rule (which
(ortedj m retroactive) and asked if he’d
ireasa t°Jake the extra year for which
ust gF e ! w rei eligible. “I was thrilled,”
ntrafHpdi ifecalls. “I want to play pro
exteiW “d the extra year will be in-
irvesM' y ia ^ e for me to improve my
soutfcfrength and speed. Right now'
speed is the big question mark. I“ve
iionsBr^" timed at 4.7 for 40 yards,
is ‘ s adequate but not great. I’ve
Se((
3 lot of weights and was on a
■op is r * vte ' n supplement diet and added
[t° 10 pounds.” Grulieh, who did
loesn l ot P la V as a freshman, is a junior
i fall. He’s 6-0 and 195.
^ RViitweff is a walk-on who
Pj> given a scholarship last spring.
ieens® arc J sa ys: "Whitwell came to us
ivestol■ sa 'd I can run a 4.5 and run it
| Er y time. I’m tough and can play’,
i bim and he ran a 4.5.
jj*n he did it again. He is tough
nany
litions
neiMfl*
feedinj
leint
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and he can play, so we put him on
scholarship.” Defensive end James
Zachery is the lone scholarship
football player in the Corps of
Cadets at A&M. Says Zachery,
“Football, classes and Corps duty
leaves me no idle time.” A&M
fullback David Brothers and Texas
punter-kicker Russell Erxleben
were high school teammates at Se-
guin. Brothers a running back and
Erxleben a quarterback. Nothing
odd about that? Only that Brothers
was the team’s punter.
Craig Glendenning, 1976 co
winner (with Tank Marshall) of the
Aggie Heart Award, is in land-
development business just outside
Dallas with former Aggies Jimmy
Dean (Houston Oilers) and Dennis
Swilley (Minnesota Vikings) and
former Rice Owl Tommy Kramer
(Minnesota Vikings). Guess who’s
doing all the work? Doug Holmes, a
5-10, 227-pound offensive guard for
A&M and Belfard says: “When
people start looking for an all
conference guard they look for
people 6-3 or 6-4, but I think Doug
Holmes is ploying as well as most
anyone. He’s exceptionally quick
and strong and should be consid
ered for honors.”
A&M sophomore quarterbacks
Mike Mosley and David Beal we
ren’t serious about becoming Aggies
until they visited the campus. Then
they were sold on A&M. Both say
football wasn’t their favorite sport in
high school. Mosley leaned toward
basketball and Beal favored
baseball SWC Press Tour
member John Hollis of the Houston
Post: "Everywhere we went, they
said it was the hottest fall weather
ever and their team was in the best
physical shape ever. All of the
squads have a lot of real big, strong
players. All of which means we
should have one helluva race in the
Southwest Conference this season.”
With the Southwest Conference
Fall Tournament the first crack out
of the barrel, Texas A&M golf coach
Bob Ellis is busy qualifying 11
players for the six open spots. The
tourney will be held Monday and
Tuesday at Texarkana Country Club
in Texarkana.
The SWC coaches voted for a new
format which will feature team and
individual match play. The Aggies
will meet Baylor in a first round
match Monday morning. The sec
ond match will be Monday after
noon with the championship match
Tuesday.
The Aggies are presently playing
qualifying rounds at three different
courses. The low six scores will qual
ify for the tournament.
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Recognition is inevitable if the
Mean Green continues to improve
as they have the past four years.
.After a disappointing 2-7-2 season in
1974 NTSU bounced back to sea
sons of 7-4 in 1975 and again in
1976. But 1977 was the year for the
Eagles as the team progressed to
10-1 record. Included in last sea
son’s performance was a victory over
Fry’s old employers, SMU, the first
time a North Texas State team has
defeated a SMU team since 1933.
Even though the Eagles received
national recognition, finishing 16th
in the final UPI poll, still the SWC
teams fail to give NTSU the recogni
tion it deserves.
“I know we can make a solid con
tribution to the conference,” said
Fry. “We can play with any of the
teams any clay if they just give us a
chance to prove it.
“That’s one of the problems we
face. We just can’t get the confer
ence teams to put us ou their
schedules. But 1 hope that will
change pretty quickly. This season
we re traveling down to Austin to
play Texas and I’m hoping other
schools will follow UT’s lead.
“You can’t blame Texas for giving
us three more games on their
schedule. The last time we played
them (a 17-14 Texas victory in 1976)
we took the largest out-of-town
crowd down there that season,
about 11,000 people. After that
game Darrell (Royal) gave us three
more games.
“We also have a contract with
SMU, and Texas Tech has given us
games starting in 1985, ” Fry added.
“The trouble with scheduling the
other conference schools is that
we re given promises that never
come through. I’m hoping that will
change and the other six conference
schools will let us on their
schedules.
“Texas A&M is the hardest one
we’ve come up against in trying to
schedule. I’ve tried for the past six
years to get a game with them and
Emory (Bellard) won’t even give me
an answer one way or the other.
They’re the hardest school to com
municate with.”
letic program on the upswing ami be
patient. If they merit conference
membership it will come.
“I know it will take a while to be
asked to join the conference but
we ll wait,” said Fry. “We’re just
hoping it takes us a shorter time
than it took Houston (20 years) or
Texas Tech (10 years). And if Arkan
sas drops out like they’ve been talk
ing about I’d say we stand an excel
lent chance of gaining membership.
“But we don’t want that to hap
pen. We don t want to come into the
conference with our hat in our hand.
We can make the Southwest Con
ference a better, stronger confer
ence with our membership. All
All Fry and the Mean Green can we re asking for is our shot to prove
do in their quest is to keep their ath- it. ”
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