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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1979 Texas has tough timi swallowing Ag victor By MARK W. PATTERSON Battalion Sports Staff BranifF, American and Texas International airlines hated to see the Texas Aggies defeat the Texas Longhorns Saturday. With the loss, the airlines have to change all those Austin-to-New Orleans reservations to Austin-to-El Paso reservations. The folks on Bourbon Street won’t hear “The Eyes of Texas” on New Year’s Day. A lot of tears were shed in the Texas locker room after the 13-7 loss, a defeat that knocked the Longhorns out of the Sugar Bowl and a share of the Southwest Conference title. With a 9-2 record, good for third place in the SWC, the Horns earned a berth in this year’s Sun Bowl against Washington Dec. 22. There were no alibis or excuses being thrown around the Texas dressing room aftqr the loss to the Aggies. The Longhorns knew they were beaten and the team took the defeat with class. “We felt going into the game that our kicking game, defense and inside running game would win us the ball game, ” Texas coach Fred Akers said. “We started making mistakes on the kicking game and it cost us the game. ’ In a span of three minutes, at the end of the second quarter, the Longhorns fumbled the ball three times deep in their own territory. The three miscues led to 10 Aggie points, enough to send the Longhorns to El Paso. “There are just so many things you can overcome,” Akers said. “We’ve played outstanding on the kicking game all year. I wish I knew what caused the mistakes, but I never will. I’ve never seen us commit so many errors so rapidly. “But,,-when it rains it pours.” It was unfortunate for Texas that, on the day when a victory meant conference championship rings and bragging rights for another year, the Longhorn defense decided to take the day off. The defense, which had allowed an average of 100 yards rushing, 76 yards passing and seven points a game this season, allowed the Aggies to roll up 188 yards on the ground and 95 yards in the air. “We came into the game thinking we could shut them (the Aggies) down enough to win,” all-America safety Johnny Johnson said. “They’re the type of team you can ’t shut down completely. We stopped them at times but they made the critical yards when they needed them. “They were just running simple, basic, fundamental plays. They just came at us and we couldn’t stop them when we had to.” To a man, the Longhorndtl pointed to Curtis touchdown run as the plai turned the game in favor Aggies. On the play, Dickeyli 0 0\ fq)/i of the JlA/fy pitch from quarterback MilteS! and, running to the ri| option to pass back to Mosley with the ball. He chose sprinting up the middle fori and the only Aggie touchdown game. “We knew it was a hal pass,” all-conference tackle Bill Acker said of the saw Mosley flair to theleki hesitated before I went to iJ “The defensive secondary Bias A&M after Mosley. With half diets committee hesitating and the otherhalj* the student Mosley, the micldle was ope'i Ml change the a heads-up play on his part, |B er 55 m inu the opening and took it.” 0 f the With the touchdown wcMpek j n the I Longhorns’ shot at No. 1 AlB^mmittee and a possible nMof the bill championship. ft Taps to b A victory over Washing ,(Tuesday of e leave UT fans smiling thrt 1 1() April afte off-season. But the Homsjft Johnson may have describ ph - senate wi Texas fan’s feelings best i ftendations 13-7 loss. “It s really hard to take,” said. “It will take a longtim over this one.” the final rt e question Dancing with Dickey Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper liver Taps is f as soon as with no en Aggie M Texas A&M’s Curtis Dickey is mauled by teammates Gerald Carter (24), Preston Dickson (56) and Jacob Green (77) after scoring the winning touchdown against Texas in the Aggies 13-7 upset victory over the Lon ghorns. Dickey’s 20-yard touchdown run came off a pass-option play. Dickey ended his career at A&M by finishing second only to Texas’ Earl Campbell on the all-time Southwest Conference rushing list. Horns’ Sun not so brigl inning of cla e survey inesday sho’ ding opposi Texas playoff picture getting clearer United Press International Abilene and Pasadena will host this week’s Class AAA semifinal playoffs as Texas high school football continues its drive to select 1979 state champions in all divisions. Beanmont Hebert and Bay City will meet at 6 p.m. Saturday in Pasadena and McKinney plays Lubbock Estacado at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Abilene to decide who will meet for the Class AAA state title one week later. Two of the four Class AAAA quarterfinal games will be played in Texas Stadium at Irving, and a third is set for the Astrodome in Houston. There will be two games each on Friday and Saturday. El Paso Coronado meets Lewisville at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Euless Trinity faces Temple at 8 p.m. Friday in the two games at Texas Stadium. Baytown Lee plays LOU NEEDS ^ USED BOOKS! He’s buying Books NOW He’d Rather Buy Books from You. Houston Memorial at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Astrodome, and Houston Wheatley will play Alice at 2 p.m. Saturday in San Antonio’s Alamo Stadium. Classes AA and A will both move into quarterfinals this week, with Class B set for semifinals and two six-man teams going for the state title. Class AA quarterfinals match Childress and Fabens in Odessa, Breckenridge and Van in Denton, Waller and McGregor in Austin, and Edna and Port Isabel in Corpus Christi. All four games are set for 8 p.m. Friday. The Class A quarterfinals will also be played Friday night, with New Deal and Seagraves playing in Lubbock, China Spring and Pilot Point meeting in Waxahachie, Troup and Lovelady vying in Nacogdoches, and Hull-Daisetta and Falls City playing in Wharton. United Press International AUSTIN — The Sun Bowl is a great place to go for a post-season football game, but the pleasure of any bowl trip is dampened somewhat by a loss to traditional Southwest Conference rival Texas A&M, Texas coach Fred Akers said Monday. Akers and his Longhorns needed only to beat the Aggies to assure a trip to the Sugar Bowl game and a matchup with top-rated Alabama, but the loss to A&M sent Houston to the Cotton Bowl, Arkansas to the Sugar bowl against Alabama, and the Horns to the Sun Bowl against Washington. Texas defeated Maryland last year in the Sun Bowl. “The Sun Bowl is a great place to go, and it’s an honor to go to any bowl,” Akers said Monday. The disappointment comes because we had some other places we could go as the first choice, and the disappointment comes from losing to Texas A&M.” Akers said his Longhorns didn’t play that poorly against the Aggies. It’s just that A&M had perhaps its best game of the season Saturday. “I looked at the films, and we played well,” Akers said. “We had some obvious breakdowns in the kicking game that gave A&M more breaks than they deserved. But A&M played very well. It’s a shame they had to pick that day to play their best football game. “We just didn’t do it when we had to do it. ” Akers said the Longhorns will take a break until Monday, then begin drills for the Dec. 22 Sun Bowl game bl arranged Monday an excki [: films with the PAC-10 team, like Texas is 9-2 for the season, | only to Southern Cal andPittsl Akers said he hopes quart __ Donnie Little, whohasnotpli I \ the Longhorns’ last two l \ "*■ because of a foot injury, willn I in time for the Sun Bowl. 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