THE BATTALION Page 15
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1978
onference notes
Alborn criticizes Owls
United Press International
HOUSTON — Ray Alborn is the
|h in a line of Rice University head
|tball coaches to be disgusted with
iplay of his team, but he may be
; first to rap his players publicly
[■failure to play hard,
nice, 1-8, suffered its most em-
rrassing loss of Alborn’s freshman
kon as head coach Saturday in a
rO setback to SMU, but as usual
1 met with reporters Tuesday.
Ilhe thing that upset me the
pst Saturday was I felt some of our
Jople did not give us a very good
fcrt, Alborn said.
|Im not saying anything to you
It I have not said to them either as
group or as individuals. We’re
Jng to set out this week to try to
■ with the program or put them in
V stands with their girl friends so
fey can have a happy Saturday af-
Vioon.”
Despite having an undersized,
slow team to compete in the South
west Conference, Alborn has
exhorted the Owls to several com
petitive performances this season.
Only Oklahoma and SMU have
scored more than 42 points against
them.
“I’ve been coaching 16 years,”
Alborn said, “but I’ve never been as
upset and disgusted as I was Satur
day. I was ready to throw in the
towel a couple of times. But I knew
better because I kept seeing my
wife’s and kid’s pictures running
through my head. ”
Since Jess Neely left the Rice
head coaching job in 1967, neither
Bo Hagan, Bill Peterson, Al Con
over, Homer Rice or Alborn has
coached a winning team. Alborn ac
cepts his share of the blame.
“I was on the sidelines doing my
worst. We did everything wrong
that was humanly possible for a
football team to do, and I think we
came up with some other things that
possibly hadn’t been done,” he said-
Despite his disgust, the genial
coach kept his record clean for not
having missed a weekly Houston
Sportswriters and Sportscasters As
sociation luncheon. He still had
enough enthusiasm left to promote
Rice’s game Saturday against
Baylor.
“Baylor has some great defensive
players. I was amazed at the
number of tackles linebacker Mike
Singletary has. I’m not going to let
my kids see any film of that guy,” he
said. “I think it’s going to be a heck
of a ballgame — for us. I’m sure
they are looking forward to Satur
day, especially in light of our per
formance last Saturday.”
Alborn showed once again he
oviet treatment showing
\igns of success for TCU-ex
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Two trainers
TTexas Christian University who
re present at the game when
‘ball player Kent Waldrep was
—____ bzed were delighted Tuesday
otobyPatOi he news that Waldrep had stood
in a Soviet treatment center,
ini Sullenger, who had helped
the helmet off Waldrep’s head
if the player was injured in a
nn against Alabama at Birmin-
ini, spoke of Waldrep’s stong re-
otis conviction. Both trainers
•ked with Waldrep in TCU
pies. aScet Wve young u\an tooV a
as assistant sports information
ictor at the school.
The first time we brought him
—I our training room and started
rkjng on his legs to keep the
sde tone, he quoted the Bible,
from Romans and it has to do
leverything working out for you
[he end, said Sullenger.
'at was the scripture that kept
ling up again and again. And
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The verse, Romans 8-28, says,
“And we know that all things work
together for good, to them that love
God, to them who are the called ac
cording to his purpose.”
Sullenger said, “I had just come
to TCU that summer and I had
played a lot of golf with Kent before
practice started that year. And when
this happened a lot of things raced
through my mind. He could have
made it on a golf scholarship at a lot
of places and now he wasn’t going to
be abfe to play again. It was a very
very depressing thing to think ab
out. I kept wondering why it had to
happen to such a super youngster.
“I was not all that srong in my
religious beliefs then as I am now
and Kent helped me there.
“I stayed behind with him in
Birmingham and there was just a
feeling of hopelessness. The doctors
were not even sure he would make
it through the surgery. They were
just hoping he held on until his par
ents got there.”
Ross Bailey also was present
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-andry praises Newhouse
United Press International
'ALLAS — Dallas coach Tom
idry said Tuesday fullback
icrt Newhouse played the most
fly perfect game ever by a Cow-
back in the club’s 42-J 4 victory
the Green Bay Packers,
nd he also said an outburst by
ning back Tony Dorsett against
Dallas media following that
ory was probably nothing more
i a reaction to the pressure that
been building for the past few
iks.
•alias one-sided win, which
ke a two-game losing streak,
t the Cowboys a game back of
N TPM t’ n ^ on khe NFC East and
Hi 'FA ihtened the team’s playoff out-
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•orsett gained 149 yards,
diouse picked up 101 and the
Crushed for a record 313 yards.
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Landry said. “He graded the
twe have ever graded a back.
We grade eight or nine
igories — blocking pass routes,
^protection, run blocking, etc.,
have percentages in each cate-
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“He did not grade in the red in
any categories.”
Landry said Dorsett and
Newhouse, along with every
member of the offensive line, re
ceived a game ha)) for the victory.
After the game, however, Dorsett
blasted the Dallas area media and
said they were trying to run him out
of town. He was particularly upset
at comments in a column written
last month reflecting on Dorsett’s
collegiate and brief professional
career.
“That (Dorsett’s reaction) was un
fortunate, ” said Landry. “A guy can
get uptight in certain situations. I
don’t know if the article was jus
tified. I don’t remember if I even
saw it.
“I don’t think Tony meant things
to come out quite the way he said
them. It was just something that
came out in a buildup. He has had
some pressures the last few weeks.
“He hasn’t been running as well
as he would have hoped and that
puts a lot of pressure on him. He is a
competitor. He was probably down
and that was the result of that kind
of feeling. ”
Landry was particularly pleased
with Dorsett’s ability to run outside
during the Green Bay game.
“He has had a little hang-up be
cause he hasn’t run outside during
his career, ” Landry said. “But he is
finding now that there is yardage
out there and as he picks up the
plays he is running much better.
This can add a new dimension to
him. Once he can get outside it
makes it easier to go inside.”
Much of the success at running
outside, Landry said, comes from
experience.
“I think the blocking becomes
very important thing for him be
cause he is an instinct runner,” said
Landry. “As you learn more about
the blocking pattern you learn that
there is a softness there and there
are holes.
“Sometimes you see flashes of
color from the opposite color of jer
seys which tend to make you react
and run away from them, but if you
know the patterns you can antici
pate the softness in the defense and
run through tacklers even if you
don’t have those clean holes.”
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could speak frankly about football.
“I talked to Coach (Grant) Teaff
over the phone and he sounded
about like I feel, so I’m sure we ll
have an emotion-filled game. We’ve
got to get ourselves up first and then
get the kids ready.”
Not all of his post-game speeches
to the Owls have been biting, he
said.
“1 told the players after the game,
there will be a time — whether they
are here or I’m here — when this
place is going to get turned around
and we’re going to kick somebody
like we got kicked,” he said.
The crowd for Saturday’s game in
70,000-seat Rice Stadium would be
“scattered”, he said.
when the injury occurred. It was
Bailey who told team members that
Kent was injured.
“This is great encouragement to
me,” Bailey said. “We shared simi
lar beliefs with him concerning the
treatment and we thought any prog
ress, regardless of what it might be,
would be super.
“We are all very excited. We have
all been working for this for several
years.”
The trainer was asked why
American medical experts could not
have done the same thing.
“That’s just the way the trend of
American medical thought has
been,” Bailey said. “I think this
could change it.”
Sullenger said, “My feelings are
that I hope it will have some effect
on the way of thinking here. There
are a lot of people in this situation
who will be asking questions and
they will want to be receiving an
swers. People in this situation are
willing to take some risks. I would
think that it should have an effect.”
DALLAS — Southern Methodist
coach Ron Meyer said Tuesday his
team’s game with Texas Tech Satur
day is “practically a toss up.
“Both teams do some things very
well, but don’t do everything well
enough to be contending for the
conference championship yet,”
Meyer said.
“We throw the ball pretty well
and they do a good job of running
with Hadnot in there. Ron Reeves is
a quarterback with a tremendous fu
ture so it should be a heck of a
game.”
Meyer said Tech’s momentum,
having won four games in a row,
worries him the most.
“We’re meeting Tech at their
highest crest of the season,” he said.
“They’re right about where we are
in the conference standings.
“This game is important to us be
cause it will be a good test of the
progress we’ve made as a team.”
AUSTtS — Texas freshman run
ning back Brad Beck, who injured a
knee against Houston last week, will
not play against TCU this week and
will undergo tests Wednesday to de
termine if he needs surgery.
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