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the sports THE BATTALION MONDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1878 Pag* 11 gs snap Bears’ 5-game losing streak V n photo by Phi i Rhythm short. After ;h s. f Dean (1 glad By DAVID BOGGAN Battalion Sports Editor en he stepped onto Kyle Field ay, Grant Teaff must have ht his bus had taken a wrong [at Calvert. Was this the same [soaked stadium the Baylor i had stood in during the 1975 11976 Baylor-Texas A&M con- i hours and 35 minutes later, left Kyle Field with a 24-6 he must have again won- lifhe was really in Aggieland. ! these the same Texas Aggies |his Bears had had such limited against since TeaflTs arrival or? it was Kyle Field and they the Texas Aggies. And after second straight loss, the Ag- Ihad some questions of their hy could Texas A&M move the et not get in the end zone? In f first victory of the season, the had 363 yards total offense while the Aggies had 361. But try telling that to the scoreboard. “We were averaging 42 points a game in our first four games,” Texas A&M coach Emory Bellard said. Be fore Houston the Aggies had not al lowed a touchdown in 14 quarters of football. “Now we haven’t scored a touchdown in eight quarters. I think Raymond Belcher we’re playing better football teams but I don’t think they’re that much better. It is a complete turn around. ” It is a turn for the worst for the Aggies, who once in the game had to settle for a field goal after moving the ball 84 yards to the Baylor 2-yard line. Mike Mosley passed for 140 yards and the Aggies rushed for 221 yards. “We moved the ball pretty well,” Bellard said, “but when we got into scoring position we let the wheels fly off the machine instead of taking it on in. We’ve just lost our offensive punch.” Is the Aggies’ offensive punch personified in Curtis Dickey, who played only sparingly because of a sprained left ankle and a strained right knee? Some people think so. “That’s got to be it,” defensive end Jacob Green said of Dickey’s absence, trying to find a reason for Texas A&M’s poor performance. “Dickey is the backbone of that of fense.” Fullback Raymond Belcher added, “Curtis got me sparked. He came into the game and got me on track. When he goes out of the game, they (the opposing defense) don’t have to concentrate on the outside run and that makes it harder for me.” There was some question as to why the injured Dickey, who had to be helped from the field three times, was allowed to play in the game and risk further injury. “I think we had no choice but to play him,” Bellard said, noting that the Aggies needed their best players on the field. “Curtis felt like he could play. He stepped on the field to play.” Belcher’s performance was one of the high points of the afternoon for the Aggies. In his first start for Texas A&M, the 197-pound senior gained 119 yards on 24 carries. Belcher started at fullback because David Brothers was moved from fullback to halfback to replace the injured Adgar Armstrong. Belcher first dis counted his performance, saying that he didn’t do as well as he had expected to. Then he was told that he had rushed for over 100 yards. “Did I really get over 100 yards?” he asked in amazement. “I knew I was tired. I felt like my legs were dead. “It was slow going at first. I ex pected to be reading the defense better and I had trouble reading their linebackers. I was concerned about fumbling the ball. I even took a ball with me to the room last night and just held it.” Belcher did fum ble once but offensive tackle Cody Risen recovered the ball for Texas A&M. Another high point for the Aggies was the passing combination of Mosley to split end Doug Teague. Teague caught eight of Mosley’s passes for 87 yards. “We felt we could throw on them,” Teague said. “They were laying off of us quite a bit, giving us a good cushion. We moved the ball all day; we just didn’t get into the end zone. And the name of the game is scoring.” Texas A&M is now tied with Texas Tech, Rice and Baylor in Southwest Conference standings with a 1-2 record. Texas and Hous ton are 3-0, SMU is 2-1, Arkansas is 1-1 and TCU is 0-3. “The only thing we can do now is play for our pride and maybe one of the other bowl games,” Green said. ' “I think the Cotton Bowl is out of |our reach.” SCORING SUMMARY Baylor 7 0 7 10—24 Texas A&M 3 3 0 0—6 BU—Holt 78 pass from Smith (Bledsoe kick) AM—Franklin, 19 FG AM—Franklin, 45 FG BU—Howell 1 run (Bledsoe kick) BU—Maness, 32 FG BU—Mitchell 18 pass from Smith (Bledsoe kick) to qc was an op« tegory is ft or for (host i compett Denney ve’ll sign et lies United Press International 1VING — With Tony Dorsett in doghouse, Dallas quarterback er Staubach went to old favorite # Pearson for a key touchdown in the first half Sunday that ight the Cowboys a 14-7 win Philadelphia and vaulted them atiefor the NFC East lead, alias’defense, which has helped ^ the Cowboys during an offen- slump, shut down Philadel- s Wilbert Montgomery — the i's leading rusher — to 18 yards 1 carries, the longest of which sa six yards. And the Cowboys’ de forced to stop two unions) goe can nd toucki place fin: resident 9 in, said ople i tk intern! prosfi dry e hike raw ■cruit n race is p ental races! are simi iven to ce. [■ibbons. mg owboys defeat Eagles; share division lead See related story, page 12 diving catch of an 11-yard pass from Staubach. In that drive Dorsett carried four times for 23 yards. The Eagles’ only score came on a 34-yard pass from Ron Jaworski to tight end Keith Krepfle with 2:47 remaining in the third period. That was one of only four times the Eagles moved into Cowboys’ territory. They did so as time ran out in the first half and again late in the fourth quarter. But the Eagles chose to punt on a fourth-and-10 situation at the Dallas 37 with 5:30 to play. Philadelphia had one last chance at the tying touchdown and moved to the Cowboys’ 38 with 41 seconds to play. But Jaworski, under a heavy rush, threw the ball away and the officials ruled he did so intention ally. That cost the Eagles 10 yards and when Coach Dick Vermeil rushed onto the field to protest the call, his team was penalized 15 more yards to eliminate a serious Philadelphia threat as the final seconds ticked off. Dallas’ win was its 15th straight over the Eagles in the Cowboys’ home stadium. It was also the Cow boys’ eight consecutive victory over the Eagles and the 20th in the last 22 meetings. Staubach, whose touchdown pass to Pearson was his 16th scoring throw of the season, went through, one of his poorer games of the sea son, completing 10 of 22 throws for 108 yards. Staubach also was sacked four times, but Dallas’ defense the pres sure on Jaworski all afternoon. With Dallas and Washington now sharing the division lead, the New York Giants have moved to within a game of first place with a 5-3 record and the Eagles are two games back at 4-4. Cyclini idelphia drives in the final quar- :eur organ! tofbicyclen ie or competiti Denney $ai£ Thighs" Sii decision pushed the Cow- record to 6-2 and moved them a share of the division leader- with the Washington Redskins, lost for the second straight day. irsett, who managed only 24 a week ago against the St. s Cardinals, was benched by :h Tom Landry to start the because he missed Saturday’s ice. All efforts to find Dorsett d Saturday and when he re nd for the game Sunday, he told he had overslept, hen Dorsett did enter the e, however, he ignited the s to their second touchdown one that proved to be the ■winner. Cowboys capitalized on a le by Mike Hogan late in the quarter to start a 46-yard drive ended in a 1-yard touchdown by Robert Newhouse. And scored Dallas’ only other hdown with 1:05 left in the sec- quarter, making a spectacular, iib boy: he finli Second! I 'OiiiiYbil i WE CAN SAVE YOU HUNDREDS ON A I NEW CAR? WE BROKER STRAIGHT g FROM DETROIT! 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