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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
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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
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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
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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
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Classes AA and A will both move
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Class AA quarterfinals match
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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
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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
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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. B gy §
“If he’s ready to play, he’ll] | j
said Akers, whose teamhasak I All peopl
hampered by the loss of ill lie consunq:
fastest running backs, A.J, Job to attend ai
Rodney Tate, leaving the I Brazos Con
without an outside threat. 1, Beginnin
“The hacks we have are saBer s educat
the power game, and our oftounty’s ok
game is limited. We have
care of that with the quart
ru nn i n g or th rowing, ” Akers
Donnie is healthy he is
outside threat himself.”
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