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tusted with football fans that he
bought about going home.
But Yeoman, the military-trained
Jniversity of Houston football
jbach, never vacated any of this
ountry’s hostile college football
tadiums until after the final whistle
ind until after his taunters had left
n disgust.
[“Only one time,” the 18-year
lead coach said, “did I feel the at-
nosphere of a game affected one of
ny teams. That was at Florida in
.969.
For a team with a checkered foot-
>all history, Houston has remained
teady in one respect. In a big game
in foreign turf, the Cougars usually
day well.
They have won amid highly
charged atmospheres at Jackson,
Miss., Athens, Ga., East Lansing,
Mich., Tallahassee, Fla., Lqs
Angeles. In two visits to Austin,
Texas, the Cougars have not lost.
Yeoman said the key was for the
head coach to maintain an appear
ance of calmness.
“Coaches are their own worst
enemy,” he said. “I don’t tell my
guys anything before the game. I
just tell them to play. If the coach is
apprehensive then his team is going
to be apprehensive. ’
Yeoman discussed his approach as
he prepared his fourth-rated team to
travel to Fayetteville, Ark., for a
Saturday match against fifth-ranked
Arkansas. The game matches the
Southwest Conference’s remaining!
unbeaten teams.
Former Texas assistant coach
Mike Campbell once said: “Playing
in Fayetteville is like parachuting
into the Kremlin.”
Yeoman was not about to go that
far this week, but he did acknowl
edge the incredible fervor of red-
clad Razorback fans.
“There isn’t much else to do up
there. Either get excited about
football or shoot squirrels,” he said.
The coach prepares for hostile
environments during practice ses
sions. Two weeks ago, the Houston
band serenaded workouts with the
Aggie War Hymn. This week
Yeoman led his team after practice
in the Razorback’s cheer:
“Woooooo. Pig. Sooie.”
“Prayerfully,” he said, “our guys
will pay so much attention to what is
going on on the field they won’t
notice. As long as the fans stay in the
stands I don’t think there’s any rea
son to get excited.”
In reviewing some of his past
victories cut from the heartlands of
collegiate powers. Yeoman pre
ferred not to say where a southern
highway patrolman greeted him
with a racial insult. At that time in
the late 1960s, there were three
blacks on Houston’s team.
At Oxford, Miss., “they threw salt
shakers at us. Yeoman said.
At Gainesville, Fla., in 1969, the
coach said, “We had to walk past a
corner of the stands. People were
saying such ugly things I wasn’t sure
we’d ever make it to the playing
field.”
In Yeoman’s early years, his
teams had to win on the road or
have losing records.
“Wh en we got our program
started nobody would come to us,”
he said. “When Mississippi and
Mississippi State finally came to
Houston they never came back. We
were forced to play all over the
place.”
Yeoman’s road record is 41-41-4.
After his first four building seasons,
his Cougars were 39-26-3 on the
road.
He credited his road record to his
association with former Michigan
State Coach Duffy Daugherty.
“Duffy was loose. He never got
excited before a game,” Yeoman
said.
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The Texas Longhorns were near
winning their fourth straight
Southwest Conference football
championship and Auburn’s Pat Sul
livan was on his way to becoming
the Heisman Trophy winner.
It was late October 1971, and it
was the last time that Abilene
Cooper defeated Odessa Permian in
one of the biggest Texas high school
football rivalries in Class AAAA.
The two District 5-AAAA powers
collide again this weekend in
Abilene. And, both teams are rated
in UPI’s top 10 as well as being un
defeated in district play. The winner
likely will end up in the post-season
playoffs.
“We re glad to have the chance to
play them,” said Permian Coach
John Wilkins. “We are the defend
ing district champions. To win it
they’ve got to beat us. We may try
out a few new wrinkles, but mainly
we ll stay with what we’ve been do
ing.”
There will be no room — sitting
or standing — in the Abilene
stadium as the two West Texas pow
ers meet.
Permian won, 21-20, in Odessa
last year. No one is more certain of
that than Cooper coach Ray Over-
ton.
“It’s hard to get your kids up for
the first game of the year — and
keep them up high all season long,”
Overton said. “But, when you’re
rated No. 1 that’s what you have to
do. I know our kids are feeling the
pressure, but I also know they re
member last year. It was the game
that kept us out of the playoffs.”
While the Cooper-Permian battle
will top the state schedule, an im
portant Class AAA matchup will be
taking place on the other side of the
state. Jasper, ranked No. 1 until last
week’s 10-7 loss to Little Cypress-
Mauriceville, puts its playoff hopes
and No. 10 rating on the line this
week against No. 4 Beaumont
Hebert.
Paris, top-ranked in Class AAA,
travels to Gilmer; Class AA’s top-
rated Kenedy hosts Yoakum; and
Class A s top-ranked China Springs
entertains Hico.
Conroe, rated second in Class
AAAA, is at Humble; No. 3 La Porte
plays at Houston Clear Lake; No. 4
San Antonio Judson hosts Laredo
Nixon; No. 5 Temple plays at Waco
Richfield; No. 6 Plano trys to re
cover at Denison; No. 7 Houston
Klein hosts Spring; No. 8 Lubbock
Monterey hosts Lubbock; and No.
10 San Antonio MacArthur hosts
San Antonio Churchill in a major
Alamo City showdown.
Class AAA’s second-ranked
Huntsville hosts Channelview;
third-ranked Kerrville plays at
Uvalde; fifth-ranked Gregory-
Portland is at Sinton; sixth-ranked
Lubbock Estacado is at Borger;
seventh-ranked San Angelo
Lakeview plays at Brownfield,
eighth-ranked Cuero is at San An
tonio Madison; and ninth-rated
Pecos plays at Odessa Ector.
Breckenridge, ranked second in
Class AA, plays at Coleman and No.
3 Pittsburg is at Jefferson. Fifth-
ranked Hays Consolidated is at San
Antonio Cole; sixth-ranked Wylie is
at Winters; seventh-ranked Hal-
lettsville hosts Floresville; eighth-
ranked Littlefield hosts Muleshoe;
ninth-ranked Medina Valley plays at
Poteet; and lOth-ranked Van hosts
White Oak. Fourth-ranked Chil
dress has an open date this week.
In Class A, second-rated Haskell
is at Aspermont; third-ranked Glen
Rose is at Whitney; fourth-rated
Seagraves hosts Plains; fifth-ranked
Hawkins hosts New Diana; sixth-
ranked Troup hosts Grapeland;
eighth-rated Mason hosts Junction;
ninth-ranked Flatonia hosts Burton;
and lOth-rated Dilley hosts Brac-
ketville. Seventh-ranked Rotan is
idle this week.
Women’s soccer undefeated
The Texas A&M women’s soccer
team defeated the Stephen F. Aus
tin Ladyjacks, 2-0 in Nacogdoches
to boost their season record to 5-0-1.
The Ladyjacks shut out the Ag
gies in the first half but two-second
half goals and some fine defense
were all the Aggies needed to win.
The goals were scored by Jaime
Fougeron (direct kick) and Lucy
Bourne.
Alan Heath, the Aggies coach,
named several players for outstand
ing play. They were, Donna Fi
le rbe, Adele Fairman, goalie Lani
Jacobs and captains Jaime Fougeron
and Ceil Cottingham.
The Aggies next game is against
Rice this Saturday in Houston. The
game will be played at the athletic
complex on the Rice campus at
11:30 a.m. prior to the A&M-Rice
football game.
AN INVITATION TO
ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTALISTS
The B-CS Chamber Orchestra cordially invites amateur
instrumentalists to join with them and the Community
Singers in the annual preparation and performance of
Handel’s “Messiah” on December 9, 1979. The or
chestra is an amateur, non-profit community service
group open to all interested players.
An organizational meeting and mixer for new members
will be held at the regular Monday evening, October 29,
meeting of the Classical Piano Club (Room 231, MSC
at 7:30 p.m.).
Although the mixer will not be a formal rehearsal, nor do
we have rigorous auditions for the orchestra, please
feel free to bring your instrument as the Classical
Piano Club encourages music-making at its meetings.
Interested persons who are unable to attend the mixer
can obtain further information by telephone: 822-0441,
846-9567, or 693-2303.
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NEW YORK — If the past two
fears are any indication, about $25
Billion — not to mention the serv-
s of several quality athletes —
change hands on Nov. 2.
That’s the date for this year’s
Jaseball re-entry draft for free
ents, and 33 players have de-
red themselves eligible for the
poceedings.
' Last year, 14 players were signed
1978 for a total of $24,219,249.
Although such clubs as the Kansas
|y Royals, St. Louis Cardinals and
to York Mets have, in the past,
Jcted the re-entry draft as a
eans of rising rapidly to the status
contenders, such teams as the
o-time champion New York Yan-
es, California Angels and Brewers
have been extremely successful with
their big-money deals.
And the caliber of players availa
ble this year could mean the differ
ence between a winning and losing
season for some clubs in 1980.
Among the free agents are American
League strikeout king Nolan Ryan,
1978 World Series star Bucky Dent
and three outstanding relief pitch
ers.
The pot has been sweetened with
another big name. Two-time Na
tional League MVP Joe Morgan has
also declared free agency as well.
Don Stanhouse of the American
League champion Baltimore
Orioles, Skip Lockwood of the Mets
and Al Hrabosky of the Royals are
considered first-class relievers and
should have a good chance to land
lucrative contracts with contenders.
Among the others expected to at
tract the allowed 12 bids are pitcher
Dave Goltz of the Minnesota Twins,
infielder Jorge Orta of the White
Sox, shortstop Fred Patek of the
Royals, infielder Rennie Stennett of
the champion Pittsburgh Pirates,
pitcher Rick Wise of the Red Sox
and outfielder Roy White of the
Yankees.
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