Page 14 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1978
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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University’s football
team took advantage of last week’s
open date to rest and repair its sea
son battle wounds, while head coach
Tom Wilson spent most of the week
healing some wounds of his own.
Wilson spent a good part of last
week in St. Joseph’s Hospital with
kidney stones but said he, along
with the team is ready for Arkansas.
“I feel fine now,’’ Wilson said, “I
couldn’t have said that Monday but
I feel fine going into the game.”
Wilson said last week was spent
getting all the injured players well
and taking it easy.
“The team is healthy now,” he
said. “Ed Pustejovsky (center) is
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coming back real well. He hasn’t
had any contact this week but he’s
coming off the ball quick and he
should be back this week. We won’t
know until the end of the week.”
The game with Arkansas should
decide which, if any bowl, the Ag
gies go to.
“I really don’t know where we
might go, ” Wilson said. “I know that
there are a lot of bowl representa
tives looking at us, and it just de
pends on our play this week.
“Of course, the whole bowl pic
ture is cloudy. Even the major bowl
representatives are not decided, ” he
said. “I think that we have played
well enough to be in a bowl.”
Yet, the Aggies cannot look ahead
to any post-season games because
the game with Arkansas is going to
be one of their biggest challenges of
the season.
“We know what it takes to win a
big game,” Wilson said, “we proved
it against SMU. So I think that it is
going to be a good, evenly fought
ball game.
“Like I said, we look pretty good
going into the Arkansas game. Cur
tis (Dickey) is ready to go, he got all
his timing and confidence back
against SMU. By the end of the
game, he was running with author
ity. He will not be back on kickoffs
anymore, he gets enough contact in
the game.
“The only time I want to see Cur-
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tis get the ball is out of the
I-formation,” Wilson said.
Wilson said that Temple Aday,
Adger Armstrong, Leandrew Brown
and Holly Wilson have been work
ing on receiving kickoffs.
The only negative aspect going
into the game could be an injury to
defensive back Darrell Smith. He
didn’t practice Monday due to a
bruised thigh. Smith doubles as de
fensive back and punt returner and
if he is unable to play, Aday will re
turn punts.
The week off not only allowed the
Aggies to rest, it also allowed Wil
son to put some more new twists
into his offense.
“Actually the week off allowed us
to get more familiar with the things
we re already doing,” he said.
“Mike (Mosley) had a couple of bad
pitches against SMU and it was just
because we haven’t worked enough
on the new parts of our offense. But
we’ve got all our timing down now. ”
Wilson spoke of his young
linebackers progress and how the
new field goal rule has affected
kicker Tony Franklin’s long range
attempts.
“You just don’t get as many op
portunities to kick long field goals
with this season’s new rule,” Wilson
said. The rule states that the ball
comes back to the line of scrimmage
if a field goal attempt is missed. “A
team cannot afford to give up that
kind of field position when they try a
50-yard field goal. The object of the
game is to keep the opposing team
as deep in their own territory as
possible, so you can’t afford to give
up too much yardage.
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The Aggie linebackers who have
improved so much this year are
Doug Carr, Mike Little and Randy
Harvey. Carr leads the Aggies in
tackles with 100 so far this year.
“We are very happy about the
way all three linebackers have im
proved all year,” Wilson said. “They
are young and have a long way to go,
but we think they are playing very
well. ”
With a big win under their belts
and a possible bowl berth on the
line this week, the Aggies seem
ready to meet the Hogs in Little
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HOUSTON — Houston Oilers
running back Rob Carpenter will
require surgery to repair a torn li
gament in his right knee, a team
spokesman said Tuesday.
Carpenter, the team’s second
leading ballcarrier, was injured in
the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game
against New England, which the
Oilers won 26-23. Doctors decided
Tuesday morning to operate, and
Carpenter was placed on the Oilers’
injured reserve list later in the day.
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turn to practice today following a
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Meanwhile, the Patriots, who
were upset by the Oilers on Sunday,
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linebacker Steve Zabel will be out at
least five weeks.
Zabel’s right knee was placed in a
cast after it was determined he par
tially tore a ligament in the game.
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knee would stay in the cast until
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“At that time, he will be reexam
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will tie available for the Miami game
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Fairbanks said Steve King will
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