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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1979
l foDickey ends days as Ag back
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Kurtis Dickey and I do have some-
mingin common. This weekend, the
University of Texas game will be our
itnl lv as students at Texas A&M.
they hi''' I ^ 1K '’ as ^ 1C fi anic * s Iwing played,
' ^‘ il1 w 11 be able to reminisce about our
here at A&M because we ll
Sh be on the sidelines as specta
tors
■Tom Wilson announced Tuesday
it, in all probability, Dickey play-
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1 recordofl idjhis last down as an Aggie three
onents is Jpeks ago against the SMU Mus-
r e >gbt AFcHgs, It was against SMU that Dick-
s teams wildI|tbuffered a broken rib and was re-
■ved from the game. He hasn’t
s a long |jj- Epeared since,
s todetcrniiniMThe one-time-Heisman Trophy
playoffsan candidate was in too much pain to
1 advantag play against the Arkansas Razorbacks
earns have; M) weeks ago. He didn’t even make
tne trip to Fort Worth last week to
becomes si f H ° rned l ?'°T Vm
(() ( . (jure that he was missed either week.
i and Phii ri M Vha t began as a year full of hope
jh i H || for the Bryan native has ended on
md tl ip 6 sidelines. Dickey was touted as
Aggies’ answer to USC’s Charles
White and Oklahoma’s Billy Sims,
and Pi' jBut since the Aggies’ fourth game of
regular sea ,the year. White and Sims have run
]ples around Dickey,
ot only is Dickey missing from
nation’s top 10 rushers, but he
ks a distant third among SWC
Ihers this season. Dickey has
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|aled 808 yards (a far cry from the
he wanted at the beginning of
^season) to A.J. Jones’s 918 yards,
th trail Texas Tech’s all-Southwest
nference running back James
idnot’s 1,371 yards. All three are
gh for the season,
jl still can’t understand why Dick-
was touted as a Heisman Trophy
candidate at the season’s beginning.
Was it because he can run fast in
track spikes?
It’s true that Curtis Dickey is an
all-America when he’s on a track.
But on Astroturf, he’s just another
running back.
The people around the conference
seem to support that thought as well.
In his three years as a player in the
SWC, Dickey earned Freshman of
the Year honors and was named all-
SWC only once, that being last year.
Looking at the raw numbers he
has compiled, an argument can be
made in favor of Dickey’s value as a
football player. Dickey has totaled
3,699 yards in four years, second on
the SWC all-time rushing list to Earl
Campbell’s 4,443-yard total.
But the real value of a running
back rests in his ability to play every
game and get the big yardage against
the good teams — the teams that put
11 worthy defensive players on the
field. True, Dickey has rolled up big
yardage every year, but those three-
figure days have come against the
Boston Colleges and Virginia Techs.
Dickey seems to have one good
game a season. Three years ago it
came against Texas Tech (18 carries
for 127 yards). In 1977 it was against
TCU (20 carries for 178 yards). Last
season, Dickey was outstanding
against Iowa State in the Hall of
Fame Bowl when he rushed for 276
yards on 34 carries. And this season,
Dickey gained 184 yards on 34 tries
against Penn State.
But it was against Texas, Arkansas,
Michigan and Houston the past four
years that the Aggies needed Dickey
to play like an All-America back. He
didn’t. Against Texas the past three
years, Dickey has carried the ball 39
times for 89 yards. Last year, Dickey
carried the ball 15 times for 11 yards
in what now was his last shot against
the Longhorns.
But the professional scouts seem
to think Dickey has what a running
back needs to play in the NFL. A
sizable contract awaits A&M’s No.
22.
So now I have something to talk to
Curtis about on the sidelines Satur
day afternoon. I can ask him if he’s
happy about his college football
career, or if he wishes he could do it
all over again, to collect the awards
that have thus far eluded him.
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