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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1978
Page 9
Aggies have known brighter times
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
Prior to last Friday night, all of
Curtis Dickey’s trips to Austin’s
Memorial Stadium this year had
been quite successful and con
sequently pleasant ventures.
Back in April Bryan’s favorite son
sped to victories in the 100-meter
dash and in the 400-meter relay
(along with three teammates) during
the Texas Relays. When he returned
to the 40 acres in May, Dickey re
peated his April performance, help
ing the Aggies win the Southwest
Conference track and field cham
pionship.
Unfortunately, only memories of
that fruitful spring remained for
Dickey on the windy autumn night
that offered little success and even
less pleasantries for the Texas Aggies
as the University of Texas defeated
Texas A&M 22-7 in one of the na
tion’s classic football rivalries.
Dickey, who rushed for a career-
high 230 yards last week against
TCU, was held to a career-low 11
yards by the leather-tough Longhorn
defense. After irritating a groin mus
cle pulled in Thursday’s practice,
Dickey was constantly contained on
anything going outside and managed
a longest run of only 8 yards up the
middle. He was also dropped for a
safety in the third quarter.
Curtis Dickey had an off night.
And when Curtis has an off night,
don’t expect the rest of the offense to
look like champions either.
“This was very similar to the Ar
kansas game,” Aggie coach Tom Wil
son said, refering to A&M’s 42-yard
rushing performance against the
Horns. “Texas shut down our run
ning game. They completely domi
nated the line of scrimmage. When
you get whipped on the line of
scrimmage it makes for a long night.
“It’s the same old story. We
weren’t able to block. Wilson said
he did not care to mention names or
positions associated with missed
blocking assignments.
The one bright spot in the Aggie
offense was its passing performance.
Texas A&M out-tossed Texas 170
yards to 88 yards. Gerald Carter
caught seven passes for 89 yards.
“We were not moving the ball
with the run,” Wilson said. “We
couldn’t get anything established on
the ground. We felt that passing was
the only way we were going to move
the ball.
Indeed, the ground attack was al
most like no attack at all and nobody
in the Aggie locker room was quite
sure why.
“I don’t know what the problem
was, Dickey said. “Our line has
been blocking out of the wishbone
for four years now and it’s hard to
make the adjustment (to the
I-formation blocking assignments). ’
Defensive tackle Eugene Sanders
said, “The Longhorns did a great job
of keeping our offense pinned down
all the time. I guess if you had to
pin-point one thing that would be it.
“For us to win our offense had to
keep us on the bench. You can’t ex
pect to win the game when the de
fense is on the field 40 minutes.
It may have seemed to the Aggie
defense that it was on the field 40
minutes but actually it was only out
there for 28 minutes and 1 second.
Surprisingly, the Aggie offense con
trolled the ball the other 31 minutes
and 59 seconds.
Sanders, one of the 15 seniors on
this year’s squad, explained how he
felt about the 1978 season.
“It’s been disappointing,” he said.
“I really thought we had the best
team in the Southwest Conference,
both offense and defense. When
you’re winning you don’t have to
look ahead past the next game. But
when you’re losing you can’t help but
look ahead and see disappointment
coming.
“We’ve got great personnel here.
There’s just something in the system
that’s not working — I don’t know.
SCORING SUMMARY
Texas A&M 0 0 7 0— 7
Texas 7 3 9 3—22
UT—McBath 3 run (Erxleben kick)
UT—Erxleben EG 59
AM—Mosley 9 run (Franklin kick)
UT—Safety, Dickey tackled in end zone by
Sholtz, Shankle and Jefferson
UT—Ham Jones 5 run
UT—Erxleben FG 22
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