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By MARK PATTERSON
R Battalion Sports Staff
jivest a dollar and buy a program
'A/7|;h( Texas A&M-SMU game
vtl ir (] a y because it will be a dollar
I spent. If you don’t, you won’t
able to recognize the SMU
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Mers without some help.
>ard the(Jp Mustangs limp into Kyle
Hbr a battle between two of the
al Shkodti! rans t ^ le Southwest Confer-
he collisjSaturday. ABC-TV will air the
as the test regionally, with the kickoff
■Lied for 11:50 a. m.
ch car k" * s a shell of the team that
almost In an t ^ le season - The Mustangs
‘verallw^B 56011 devastated by injuries,
[.yj ngfive starters for the season. 10
mbers of the team have missed at
her 2S i >1 one game this year.
)er a Sov Ae most notable of the casualties
n hoard All-America quarterback Mike
estigatioi r d Ford was injured in the Mus-
Balt, the '8 s second game of the year
Is ofZeal; dnst TCU and is out for the sea-
i with a knee injury. Before he
s hurt, the Mustangs were 2-0 on
difficulty Pifear, Since his injury, SMU is
1, said lb and 0-3 in conference play.
Lstros sign
janose Cruz
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LffldiUSTON — Houston Astros
f vtvl'fielder Jose Cruz and his repre-
itatives Thursday reached
> TuesdavjBement on a five-year extension
gates offs contract with the club, Astros
ders. fsident and General Manager Tal
brought hh announced.
>st were are certainly pleased that the
nstrators. l0r l e g a l differences have been
npromised and resolved,” Smith
cl after Thursday’s four-hour
ho are fi , e tj n g w jth Cruz and his agent,
junta t U Cildes, along with attorneys for
Carlos [jj s ides.
ed three ‘w e f ee j a u parties are satis-
olence. Jwith the agreement, and we are
iv theyl >st happy that we are assured of
trv’s weal® 8 conti nued service,” Smith
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Coach Ron Meyer replaced Ford
with sophomore Jim Bob Taylor.
Taylor came on to hit 47 percent of
his passes for 312 yards and four
touchdowns before going down with
hand and thigh injuries against
Texas last week.
Freshman Mike Fisher inherited
the quarterback job and will be the
starting quarterback against the Ag
gies Saturday. Taylor will be bac
kup.
“Any time you lose and are on a
bad streak, you get down,” Fisher
said of the Mustangs losing four
straight games. “But we’ve got to
forget it and get ready for A&M. If
we don’t prepare we ll be whipped
before we get there.
Other Mustangs who have been
injured include All-America re
ceiver Emanuel Tolbert, freshman
running back Erie Dickerson and
freshman lineman Michael Carter.
Tolbert injured his thigh against
Baylor and has been out of the
lineup the past three weeks. He is
expected to return to the Mustang
lineup against the Aggies Saturday.
“It (thigh) feels a lot better, much
better than it has in a long time,”
Tolbert said. “It’s not as sore as it’s
been in the past few weeks. It
doesn’t have the tender feeling that
it had.
“The Aggies will be hot coming
off a big win over Rice. They’re like
us in that they’re in a situation
where they have to win and they
probably figure they’ll beat us.”
Tolbert, in his senior season at
SMU, is considered one of the best
receivers in the country. In his col
lege career he has set the SWC
mark for the most touchdowns in a
season (11 last year), has been the
leading receiver in the conference
the past two seasons and is the lead
ing receiver in SMU’s history.
“I want to finish on a good note,”
Tolbert said. “I’d like to get well,
get on the field, work with the quar
terbacks and get rolling. We can still
finish with the best record we’ve
had since Tve been here.
Dickerson, the highly recruited
back out of Sealy, has been injured
since preseason workouts began.
He’s been battling toe, thigh and
shoulder injuries all season and has
seen limited action. After holding
him out of last week’s game against
Texas, Meyer expects Dickerson to
be ready for the Aggies Saturday.
His replacement, freshman
Charles Wagoner, is leading the
Mustangs in rushing yards this sea
son. Wagoner has gained 484 yards
on 104 carries, for a 4.7-yard-per-
carry average.
“Charles Wagoner is an outstand
ing running back,’’ Aggie head
coach Tom Wilson said. “We, along
with most coaches in the state, felt
he was in the same caliber as Dic
kerson and (Craig) James last year.
“And James is playing well for
them. He’s played a lot of different
positions (fullback and tailback), but
he’s a good back.”
James has averaged 3.8 yards
every time he’s handled the ball for
the Mustangs this season.
“Meyer predicted that they’d
have a fine team, a competitive
team, when the season started.
They still have the same people that
they started with, with the excep
tion of Ford. And with the backs
they have, they can be very danger
ous.
“I’m not surprised that this game
was chosen (for television). It’s an
attractive game. It ought to be fairly
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By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M water polo team
will host the Southwest Water Polo
Championships this weekend and
coach Dennis Fosdick likes his
team’s chances of winning its own
tournament.
“I don’t think anybody will touch
us, except maybe Santa Clara Uni
versity,” Fosdick said.
Last weekend the team travelled
to New York for the National AAU
Water Polo Championship, where
they finished fifth in a 12-team field.
Fosdick said he was very pleased
with his team’s performance, since
they had entered the tournament
having played only eight games all
season.
“We needed more game experi
ence and it showed at the beginning
of the tournament,” Fosdick said,
“but at the end we really began to
play well.”
Twelve teams from Texas,
California, Arkansas, and Arizona
will compete for the Southwest title
this weekend. Not all Southwest
Conference schools have teams and
there is no league format set up in
the SWC.
In New York, the Ags opened the
tournament with a 20-5 thrashing of
Princeton. This game didn’t give the
team the experience it needed, and
it showed in the next game as the
Ags lost to the tournament runner-
up Bucknell, 9-3, in what Fosdick
called the team’s only poor showing.
Tournament host Fordham de
feated the Aggies in their next
game, 8-7. Fosdick said an error at
the scorer’s desk enabled the Rams
to win.
“The player who scored their
winning goal in the last minute had
actually fouled out of the game,” he
said, “but the desk evidently didn’t
count all of his fouls. The same thing
had happened to Slippery Rock the
night before when Slippery Rock
played Fordham.”
The Aggies finished the tourna
ment by winning three straight,
over Slippery Rock, 8-4, a team
coached by former A&M All-
America swimmer, Dick Hunkier
and two teams from the New York
Athletic Club. The Ags beat the
NYAC ‘B’ team first, 11-8. The Ag
gies finale was against the defending
national champion NYAC ‘A’ team,
whom they beat 8-7.
George Dallam, the team’s defen
sive specialist, Vince Tavarez, the
goalie, and Steve Sampson, the
team’s leading scorer were all
elected to the All-America team.
The three are co-captains of the
1979 Aggie team.
Fosdick was upset that Jim Yates
was passed over by the All-America
selection committee.
“Jim did everything for us,” he
said. “I would have expected him to
be considered as the most valuable
player of the tournament. If he was
passed over, I really don’t know
what the selection committee was
looking for. The guys on the team
are really upset about it.”
Fosdick said the team’s play
against tough competition in New
York should enable them to win this
weekend’s tournament.
The 12-2 Ags open the tourna
ment today at 2:30 p.m. at Wolford
Cain pool.
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