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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1979
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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Editor
It was the kind of loss that can
make coaches and players lose their
pregame meals.
And the Texas Aggies had plenty
of reason to be sick as they lost a
close, important Southwest Confer
ence game to the Texas Tech Raid
ers, 21-20 in Lubbock.
“I hate to lose anytime,’ said
A&M quarterback Mike Mosley
who played one of his best games for
the Aggies, “but especially when we
played so well and led the game the
whole time. It’s very hard to take.”
Unlike previous Aggie losses this
season, this one couldn’t be attrib
uted to the offense’s fumbling or in
ability to score or defensive errors.
The Aggies fumbled twice and
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lost both but so did Tech. The Ag
gies had five penalties for 41 yards
while Tech had nine for 74. The Ag
gies averaged 7.9 yards a play while
the Raiders averaged 4.0 yards. The
Aggies had 339 yards total offense to
Tech’s 289 yards. But the Raiders
put 21 points on the board to A&M’s
20.
“The (A&M) offense performed
better tonight than it has all year,”
said A&M head coach Tom Wilson.
“We had lots of plays that could
have won the game for us but all the
“iffies” don’t mean a thing now.”
Two big plays that could have
won the game for the Aggies came
in the second half. The first came
when the Aggies missed the try for
two points wben the score was 20-9
in the third quarter. Freshman
halfback Johnny Hector’s pass sailed
over Earnest Jackson’s head ending
the Aggies’ scoring for the night.
“The percentages were with us on
that two-point play,” Wilson said.
“At that point in the game, we
wanted to make them score and
force them to go for two also if they
were going to have a chance to win.”
The Aggies’ second chance to win
came and went on David Hardy’s
missed 30-yard field goal with 5:19
left in the game and the Aggies
down 21-20.
The statistic that partially explains
the loss is the time of possession.
The Aggies controlled the ball for
24:48 while the Raiders held it for
35:12. The extra 10:64 was more
than the A&M defense could be
asked to stay on the field and effec
tively stop Tech’s running game.
It seemed the Raiders knew what
was going to happen at the begin
ning of the fourth quarter when tbey
were still down 20-9. As the ball was
being moved to the opposite end of
the field, all of the Tech players and
coaches raised their hands, holding
up four fingers as if to say, “We want
this game and we re going to take it
now.”
And they proceeded to do just
that scoring twice on drives of 80
yards in 14 plays and 65 yards in
nine plays.
It was a matter of the Raiders con
trolling the ball and pounding up
the field with fullback James Hadnot
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that held and physically beat the
Raiders for three quarters. If inten
sity and bruises dealt were statistics,
the A&M defense would have won
easily as Reeves and Hadnot were
hit hard everytime they touched the
ball.
“In the past, A&M’s been known
as a dirty football team,” Hadnot
said, “but there were no cheapshots
out there tonight. It was just a hard
fought, physical game. I’ll feel this
one for a while.”
While Curtis Dickey didn’t start
and sat out most of the game with an
injured thumb, the Aggies did have
a solid offensive performance high
lighted by Mosley’s 96 yards rushing
and 132 yards passing.
“I felt it was the best game I’ye
ever played, Mosley said. “I was
calm and avoided the mistakes and
fumbles we had before tonight.
We ll just have to fight and come
back. We’ve got everything to
gether now.
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were losing theirs, fired a steady
4-under par 66 Sunday to win the
$250,000 Texas Open by 1 stroke
over three younger players who
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under par at 268 and collect the
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