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sai has moi l— han then Aggies ‘whipped everywhere’ by UH d tor ic by wjj Porch S# )tel on m popular r 'ffeured; gos drive l risk invti in hi ■vith : authoritii :t trying ti vly, yon j anish situ thecao; -ss expert :enbyhi > from ugh abocl the sports THE BATTALION P«a« 13 MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 1976 trfAJP tMC BCSt MC COULb ... aO TOV tHIMK A MXOMt MOtMCtO WHt OUR REGULAR ISAM A\SSiO TMt BUS' r / THOUGHT / SAW SOME ACG/eS IMAVE EARLY / VOU MUST &E WRONG ... AOS DON'T DO TH A T / By DAVID BOGGAN Battalion Sports Editor To err is human, to forgive divine. —Alexander Pope Saturday night in the Astrodome' Texas A&M played a very human game and the University of Houston certainly forgave the Aggies’ shortcomings as the Cougars played divinely and won the Southwest Conference contest 33-0. The Aggies did not play like the sixth best team in the land. They did not perform like the nation’s No. 3 team in total offense nor the No. 2 team in total defense. They did not live up to their SWC superlative rat ings in either offensive or defensive categories. Houston played up to its Aggie-given nickname. The Cougars were high. Texas A&M’s erroneous first half gave the Cougars all the momentum—and the points they needed to upset the Aggies. Texas A&M’s seven possessions of the first half ended in a lost fumble, a lost fumble, a punt, a turnover on downs, an interception, a lost fum ble and a punt. Houston capitalized on everything but the punts, bring- i ing about the 33-0 halftime score that would become final two quar ters later. Against Texas Tech last week, the Aggies committed early turnovers. The difference between Houston and Tech was that the Cougars took full advantage of the Aggies’ crucial mistakes and left the men from Col lege Station in that most unenviable of positions. “We were in a catch-up position the whole ball game,” Texas A&M head coach Emory Bellard said. “It was a very simple case of one foot ball team outplaying another foot ball team.” That point could be clearly de termined by looking at the rockets - red-glare-and-bombs-bursting-in-air Astrodome scoreboard. What the 52,156 people in the Dome wanted to know was, why? The answer in the Aggie locker room was simple. “They just kicked the dog out of us right from the start,” Aggie de fensive coordinator Melvin Robertson said. “They whipped us everywhere. It was trying to understand why the Aggies had been whipped everywhere that was not so simple. “We just couldn’t ever get it go ing,” Aggie quarterback Mike Mos ley said. “We made mistakes and they capitalized on them like any great team would. They were ready to play and we looked like we/ weren’t. ” Make no mistake about it. The Cougars were ready to play. Hold ing Aggie running back Curtis Dic key to 25 yards on 14 carries and pressuring Mosley, giving him minus 16 yards rushing, were key factors to Houston’s success in shut ting out Texas A&M. In their first possession of the second half, the Aggies showed of those days.” some signs of life as they moved the ball down to the Houston 2-yard line. But again Mosley fumbled and the Cougars recovered. Aside from that and a fourth quarter Cougar fumble that Aggie linebacker Randy Harvey recovered in the A&M end- zone, the second half consisted on what Frank Broyles calls the Tango offense—1, 2, 3, kick. “We just had a bad game,” Aggie defensive end Jacob Green said after the Cougars had totaled 331 yards offense against the nation’s No. 2 defense. “We had good pres sure on them it seemed like. We just broke down in spots. “I feel like we made it tough for ourselves. I’d rather take the blame than give it to our offense. We gave up 33 points. If we hadn’t given up those points, it would still be 0-0.” Perhaps Texas A&M cornerback Darrell Smith said it best when he oftered no explanation, just a simple reality. “They just beat us and nothing else can be said,” he said, adding a very human cliche, “It was just one SCORING SUMMARY Texas A&M 0 0 0 0-0 Houston 14 19 0 0—33 UH—Adams, 10 pass from Davis (Hatfield kick) UH—Love, 1 run (Hatfield kick) UH—Love, 16 run (Hatfield kick) UH—Herring, 44 pass from Davis (lack foiled) UH—King, 12 run (pass foiled) Cougars explode in Astrodome THE FIGURE SALON By SEAN PETTY Battalion Staff nous gelai I ■Hyfish. s is valid I coastal*lExplosive was the word Texas ily inwiiAitM head football coach Emory nd dirnini llhrd used to describe the Hous- o redurti! |n Cougars before Saturday’s concludalmt'- [That was an understatement, to L the least. [Houston had more the effect of an micbomb on the Aggies as Hous- |»i completely devastated their vis- s by scoring 33 points in the first alone and allowing the Aggies points. ir them*! las been onths, » milk and d the to tgottobt IHie Aggies looked like they were |t the whole night. It appeared the Houston Cougars came to Astrodome to play football and Aggies came to get kicked und. tougar offensive tackle, Melvin es summed the game up in one tence: “We surprised them. Coach (Bill) Yeoman always told p that the team who makes the it mistakes will win the game,” essaid. “I guess the outcome of rproof s# game kind of showed that, dept undell think that they (the Aggies) igton last K" thinking about Memphis State Awfullyrt# thought they could move the ias seenW° n us since we lost to Memphis ays. W e just decided to take it to and the( ™ We kept hitting them and hit- beautifiil ? them hard and they just never ranges, B 11 ^ back. he furthf Mistakes were the major factor in becomes game. Aggie quarterback Mike >t the on: intry oni nodations’ ay undent of bib: [ to a n is only! j ast.’ Mosley had a bad case of slick fin gers and bad decisions as he fum bled four times and threw one inter ception to aid the Cougars’ effort. Mosley was the hero of last year’s game with Houston but reversed roles this year as he never got on track and appeared confused and shook, running from Cougar line men all night. The game meant a lot to the Coogs as they prepared for the Ag gies. “I got to admit, I was looking beyond Baylor to A&M,” backup quarterback Delrick Brown said. The Cougars rallied late to defeat Baylor two weeks ago. “There was a totally different at mosphere around school this week,” wide receiver Eric Herring said. “The whole school was fired up and we knew we had to win. "A lot of things changed this week,” he said pointing to his sha ven head. "We were going to shave our heads anyway, not just for A&M. It’s sort of a way of telling ourselves, ‘Hey, I’m gonna work just a little harder and concentrate on football.’” The Cougars surprised them selves by capitalizing on each of Texas A&M’s five turnovers in the first half, turning all of them into scores. “You can’t expect to be 33 points up on A&M at halftime,” Cougar head coach Bill Yeoman said. “You feel good to score 14 points against the Aggies.” Everything seemed to jell for the Coogs as they played practically error-free football for 60 minutes. “Our people had a good week of work,” Yeoman said. “The concent ration was excellent. They played hard and well and this is really the first time the kids came together. “They know they can play, but they do not understand how young they are and how much there is to learn.” The Cougars had varied re sponses on their evaluation of the team they had so completely domi nated from the opening kickoff. “I think they quit,” Brown said of the Aggies. “After they saw Mosley running out of bounds and being sacked, they started to give up. Another thing that hurt them was seeing Curtis Dickey get hurt about every other play. They had to be discouraged. “I knew they were through early. Our defense frustrated them and their offense’s inability to move the ball just got to them. ” Cougar quarterback Danny Davis said, “The only time I knpw we had won was when the game was over. Sure they were down at halftime but you can’t gauge a team like A&M. 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