Page 14 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1979
Horns meet Bears in Heart O Texas
United Press International
For the Longhorns, it will be just
another step in what they hope will
be a second consecutive Southwest
Conference championship.
But for the Bavlor Bears, it is their
biggest games in years.
The 16th-ranked Longhorns, who
have played almost perfect basket
ball for the past two weeks, and the
Bears, winners of three straight and
victors over Arkansas in Fayetteville
on Monday night, meet in venerable
Heart O’ Texas Coliseum this eve
ning.
Phillips’
contract
renewed
United Press International
HOUSTON — With only one
week remaining on his current con
tract, Houston Oilers head coach and
general manager Bum Phillips has
signed a three-year pact.
The rehiring, which will have Phil
lips continue in a dual role, was an
nounced by an Oilers spokesman
Tuesday afternoon while the coach
was out of town.
Phillips, 55, is credited with turn
ing the Oilers into a contending NFL
team after he was named head coach
before the 1975 season. In four regu
lar seasons his record is 33-25. His
Bum
Phillips
1978 team advanced to the AFC
championship game.
But he has experienced serious
problems in dealing with Oilers
executives, and that friction caused
speculation in November that his
success might not be enough to get
him rehired.
T guess I’m coaching out my op
tion. I don’t want to be, but I am,” he
said on Nov. 22. After much public
ity was given his situation, he said he
wanted to drop the matter and, in
mid-December, he said he would
sign a five-year contract within two
weeks.
A major problem area reportedly
was Phillips lack of freedom to make
acquisitions for the team without
having to have them approved by
Senior Vice President Ladd
Herczeg.
An Oilers spokesman said Phillips
assistant coaches have been offered
contracts and ‘if they have not
signed they probably will soon.”
Mays
honored
United Press International
NEW YORK — Willie Mays, the
most electrifying performer of his
era, was the only player elected to
the Hall of Fame Tuesday in a land
slide vote by the Baseball Writers
Association, although he was not a
unanimous choice.
During a 22-year career spent
with the New York and San Fran
cisco Giants and New York Mets,
Mays compiled a .302 lifetime bat
ting average, hit 670 home runs, had
3,283 hits, drove in 1,903 runs and
won two National League Most Val
uable Player Awards.
But mere statistics only told part of
the story of the man many called “the
most exciting player ever to play the
game.
“Willie Mays combined the skills
of fielding, throwing, running, hit
ting for distance and hitting for aver
age better than anyone else in
baseball history,” said Leo
Durocher, whose career spanned a
half century and who was Willie’s
first major league manager. “For my
money, he was the best.”
On the all-time list. Mays ranked
third in homers and total bases,
fourth in at bats and runs scored and
seventh in hits and runs batted in. Ty
Cobb and Hank Aaron were the only
other players in the game’s history to
rank in the top six in seven key
categories — the other being batting
average.
During the nine-year span from
1958 through 1966, Mays batted
more than .300 seven times, hit be
tween 29 and 52 homers in every
season, drove in more than 100 runs
in eight seasons, led the league in
slugging percentage three times, in
stolen bases three times and in total
bases twice.
Although Mays was a great hitter
— he batted .300 or more in 10 sea
sons, hit four homers in one game
April 30, 1961, hit 40 or more hom
ers in 10 seasons and enjoyed 10
100-RBI seasons — he is best re
membered for his dazzling defensive
plays in the outfield.
Mays made hundreds of astound
ing defensive plays, among them the
famous catch off Cleveland’s Vic
Wertz in the 1954 World Series
which is recognized as one of the
greatest catches in baseball history.
The game has ignited basketball
fever in Waco. A record crowd of
9,200 is expected in the old coliseum
and if the Bears win they will move
into a share of the Southwest Con
ference lead.
Baylor, 10-6 for the season, is cer
tainly unaccustomed to such a lofty
position. The Bears have not won a
SWC championship in 29 years.
But Bears coach Jim Haller is
doing his best to keep his team from
placing too much importance on
Wednesday night’s gme.
“I’m not looking at this game as
one that will put us into cham
pionship contention, Haller said. “I
don’t mention that to our squad. All
we talk about is playing as hard as we
can and improving game by game.
“We are in a position where we are
probably in the spotlight more than
at any time since I ve been coaching
at Baylor (five years as an assistant
and head coach).
“But I thought our victory against
Texas last year was a good one and We
beat Houston at home when they
were rolling last year. It’s not like
this will be our first sellout crowd
(although an expansion of the tu'ena
will make it the biggest home crowd
in Baylor history). We’ve had ex
citement around here before.
“But, I’ll admit, it is exciting for
us. The main reason being our
players are working so hard. They
are probably playing up their poten
tial right now.
Texas, 12-4 for the year, comes
into the game with a 5-1 conference
record while Baylor is 4-2. The Bears
are currently tied for second in
league play with Texas A&M, which
will host TCU (0-5) tonight.
The other conference action has
Arkansas (3-3), losers of four of its last
five games, meeting SMXJ (2-3) in
Dallas and Houston(3-4) facing Texas
Tech (3-3) in Lubbock. The Rice
Owls have the night off.
Texas and Baylor match up well
and last year the teams played two
exciting games, the Longhorns win
ning by two in Austin and Baylor
winning by two in Waco.
Tyrone Branyan and Jim Krivacs
have been carrying the offensive load
for Texas of late and last year the
Bears’ Pat Nunley held Krivacs to 13
and 16 points in the two meetings.
Branyan scored 16 in both games.
But it was Ron Baxter who hurt
Baylor last year, scoring 29 points in
Texas’ victory.
“We ve been fortunate against
Texas and have played them well
since Abe (Texas coach Abe Lemons)
has been there. I think we played
them the closest game they have had
in the Super Drum.
The key to Texas is to defense
them right.
“And when you have the ball you
have
take.
take
to take the shot you
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