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THE BATTALION P«a« 13
MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 1976
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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
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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.
We just wanted to come back in the
second half and keep our cool.
“I think one of the final blows to
the Aggies was when they fumbled
on the one vard line and didn’t
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