Page 12 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1978
Oilers defeat Steelers
United Press International
PITTSBURGH — What rookie
running back Earl Campbell lacked
in yardage he made up for in points,
and they were just enough to keep
the Houston Oilers’ playoffs hopes
alive in the AFC Central Division.
Hailed by Pittsburgh as the Oilers’
“catalyst” despite failing to reach the
100-yard mark for only the fourth
time this season, scored three
touchdowns Monday night to lead
Houston to a 24-17 victory over the
sluggish Steelers and end their reign
as the NFL’s last unbeaten team.
Inspired because “Mom was
watching” and led down the field by
an overpowering offensive front line,
Campbell twice knifed over from the
one-yard line and went three yards
for the other TD to snap Pittsburgh’s
victory string at seven.
“They ran on us tonight like no
other team has this season, and Mr.
Campbell was the reason why,” said
Steelers middle linebacker Jack
Lambert. “But I guess he was their
top draft choice. Now you can see
why.”
But Campbell chose to credit his
89-yard performance to his front
line, which also shielded Oiler quar
terback Dan Pastorini from
Pittsburgh’s infamous “Steel Cur
tain” defense. It was the sixth time
this season Pastorini escaped unsac
ked.
“The offensive linemen were
super,” Campbell said. “They did a
great job of knocking them out of the
way.”
And he wasn’t alone in his feel
ings.
“Campbell has a lot to do with
their success tonight, but probably
the biggest thing was that front line,”
Lambert said. “They did a great job
coming off the ball. They took it right
at us. And they played clean all the
way. They won my respect for that. ”
Pittsburgh took a 7-0 lead in the
second quarter on Terry Bradshaw’s
25-yard touchdown pass to Lynn
Swann, but Campbell’s first one-
yard dive tied it. Then, after a 30-
yard field goal by Roy Gerela put the
Steelers back on top, Toni Fritsch
answered it with a 39-yard boot to
make it 10-10 just before halftime.
The Oilers broke away to a 24-10
lead via Campbell’s three-yard TD
bolt in the third period and his other
one-yarder — on a second-chance —
in the fourth quarter before Swann
grabbed a six-yard scoring toss from
Bradshaw with 5:20 left in the game
to bring Pittsburgh back within strik
ing range.
Just before Campbell’s final, deci
sive touchdown he had tried to bull
over from the one but the ball pop
ped loose and Steeler cornerback
Ron Johnson recovered it. But the
Steelers were ruled off-sides and
Campbell got one more shot.
“That play hurt us real bad,” Lam
bert said.
Houston coach Bum Phillips had
said all week prior to Monday night’s
game that no one could catch the
Steelers, but deep inside he be
lieved the time was right for
Pittsburgh to be “dumped.”
“I thought that before the game,”
Phillips admitted, “but not once it
got started. They played too hard,
too well. They weren’t down by any
means.
Ags victorious
The Texas A&M doubles team
of Max King and Hendrik Roller
won the doubles championship
of the Houston Fall Festival
Tournament Sunday.
King, a sophomore from San
Antonio Roosevelt, and Roller, a
sophomore from Neu-Isenburg,
Germany, defeated professionals
Tim Heckler and Dan Courson
in the finals 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. In the
semifinals. King and Roller de
feated the Texas A&M No. 1
doubles team of Alberto Jimenez
and Reid Freeman 6-4, 6-4.
“They just played out of
sight,” Coach David Kent said of
King and Roller. “Nobody gave
them a chance and they lost only
one set in the entire tournament,
jl’m tremendously proud of
them. There were more than 60
teams in the tournament and the
competition was very tough.”
Cowboys take day off
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DALLAS — Tony Dorsett could
shut off his alarm clock Monday,
drift back to sleep and not feel the
slightest twinge of concern.
Even though the Minnesota
Vikings come to town next Thursday
night for a critical game that televi
sion executives have decided to
throw into prime time, the Dallas
Cowboys took the day off Monday.
Feeling that his team needed to
recover both physically and men
tally from the Cowboys hard hitting
14-7 decision over Philadelphia
jSunday, coach Tom Landry gave his
troops a day of rest,
j Among other things that delayed
the inevitable question as to
whether Dorsett made it to practice
bn time.
It was Dorsett’s failure to show up
at Dallas’ workout last Saturday,
jalong with his failure to notify club
officials why he had not reported,
that caused Landry to bench his star
runner at the start of the Philadel
phia game Sunday.
Both Landry and Dorsett deli
vered strong statements following
the game — Dorsett saying he was
humiliated and Landry saying the
former Heisman Trophy winner had
best be thinking about his career.
But there were indications that
the incident might calm before
Thursday night’s game although
Dorsett’s status as a starter was still
in doubt.
Dorsett himself said following the
game that he wanted the con
troversy shoved into the back
ground as soon as possible.
“I’m not looking for controversy,”
he said. “After today I’m through
with it.
“I don’t have any hard feelings
against Landry. I never second
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guess his decisions in a game. I
don’t second guess his discipline.
That’s not to say I accept those ac
tions. He’s the coach and calls the
shots. This was the way he wanted
to do it.
“If he’s not the greatest he’s close
to the greatest coach in the game. I
still feel that way. I hope he under
stands and doesn’t have hard feel
ings over the way some things will
be printed over what I said. I’m not
the type that bites my tongue. I say
what s on my mind. ”
Landry’s decision to give the
team off Monday runs counter to his
normal schedule on weeks when
Dallas plays on Thanksgiving Day
— something they do again this
year.
Normally on those short weeks
the team spends Monday looking at
film of the previous game and has a
short workout. On Tuesday and
Wednesday they go through their
normal full-scale offensive and de
fensive workouts.
Following the win over the
Eagles’ Landry gave no hint that
there would be an off day Monday.
Top 20
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1. Oklahoma (32) (7-0) 577
2. Penn St. (7) (7-0) 548
3. Alabama (6-1) 473
4. Nebraska (6-1) 433
5. Maryland (7-0) 396
6. So. Calif. (5-1) 374
7. Texas (5-1) 337
8. UCLA (6-1) 261
9. Michigan (5-1) 247
10. Houston (5-1) 214
11. Arkansas (4-1) 195
12. Ariz. St. (5-1) 99
13. Georgia (5-1) 92
14. LSU (5-1) 84
15. Pittsburgh (5-1) 79
16. Missouri (5-2) 72
17. Purdue (5-1) 62
18. Navy (6-0) 36
19. Notre Dame (4-2) 32
20. Clemson (5-1) 24
Wounded warrior
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An injured Curtis Dickey is helped from the
field Saturday by Dr. H. C. McQuaide, team
physician, and David Heath, assistant
trainer. Dickey, the Southwest Conference’s
leading rusher, has been hampered bylei
juries since the Houston game twoweelsi [
Dickey carried seven times for 39 yi
against Baylor.
“We’ve got to get ready,” Landry
said. “But we should not complain.
Minnesota has to get ready, too, and
they are the ones who have to
travel. They should be the ones
complaining.”
Teaff upset about report;
drops plans for legal actm
The Cowboys also placed defen
sive linemen Harvey Martin and
David Stalls on the questionable list
for Thursday night’s game.
Martin is suffering from a
hyperextended knee that kept him
out of last Sunday’s Philadelphia
contest and Stalls has a bruised
shoulder.
Cowboys doctors said, however,
that center John Fitzgerald, who has
missed the last two games with a
lower back strain, was “probable”
for the Vikings.
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WACO — Baylor coach Grant
Teaff indicated Monday he had
dropped any thought of legal action
concerning a newspaper report that
said he was in danger of losing his
job, but he made it clear he was still
upset.
“The article that appeared (in a
Memphis newspaper) as a fact is up
setting to me personally and to my
family, our program, my coaches
and Baylor University as a whole,”
Teaff said.
“My mother heard it on a Dallas
television station and it almost put
the dear lady in the hospital.
People who do those unethical
things don’t understand the rep-
recussions. It is a very humiliating
thing to me because I have always
done a job that was respected and
have^ never been in this type situa
tion.”
A newpaper story that ran last
Friday hinted that Teaffs job status
was insecure because of his team’s
five losses to open the 1978 season.
Those five losses were by a total of
21 points and Baylor led all five of
the games at the half.
Baylor athletic director Jack Pat
terson subsequently said that Teaffs
job was secure as long as Teaf
wanted it.
Teaffs team, which was not aware
of the report when it met Texas
A&M last Saturday, knocked off the
Aggies 2A-€>, for Bayior’s first win of
the year.
“My relationship with the media
as a whole has long been a good
one,” Teaff said Monday. “It is a re
lationship that I have been proud of.
I am well aware of the job of the
media, and I respect that job and
the men of high integrity that do it.
“I also realize that a head coach or
anyone else in the public eye loses
some of their privacy and that is to
be expected. But there comes a
Grant
Teaff
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time when you have to stand up and
take a stand when this type of unfac-
tual reporting gets started.
“I have been proud of the job my
staff and I have done at Baylor. We
took over a program that was down
and made it one of the most compet
itive in the country. I will be the
first one to say when I am
poor job of coaching.”
Teaff said his original thou
a suit “probably would noli £
lot of things.” ad,00tb
Teaff, who was obviously
the report when he heari
Saturday, seemed to have
by Monday.
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day (for the short bus rideto( ^
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been hung in effigy in froi
dormitory,” Teaff joked,
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be an Agg/'e.
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type of individuals we hast
people can understand theia
losing five straight gameswli
lead every game at the half
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against a fighting mad
that has to win to stay alivi
conference race has to speal
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