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Texas A&M coach Tom Wilson
said Monday his Aggies may have to
go with sophomore quarterback
Gary Kubiak against Baylor next
Saturday because of injuries that
have struck at that position.
David Beal, who had replaced
Mike Mosley at quarterback two
weeks ago, injured his right wrist
during the Houston game.
“Although the x-rays don’t show it,
our people believe David has a
broken wrist,” said Wilson. “He is at
least out for this week.”
Mosley, who had been moved to
safety after being replaced by Beal,
was returned to quarterback, but he
also has a severely sprained left
thumb and a bruised shoulder.
“We’re listing Mike as our starting
quarterback,” said Wilson, “but he’s
questionable. Kubiak will get a lot of
work this week at quarterback and if
Mike can’t play then Kubiak will.”
Wilson listed several injuries on
his team including those to tailback
Earnest Jackson (ankle) and wide re
ceiver Mike Whitwell (hip pointer).
“The field at the Astrodome is the
worst excuse for a football field I’ve
ever seen,” Wilson said. “There are
holes in the astroturf and the dirt
portions are uneven. It was a hard
hitting game, but I think you attri
bute some of the injuries to the
field.”
Ags look to Bears
By KURT ALLEN
Battalion Staff
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' In only four more days, Texas
l&M’s 1980 football season will be at
tsmidpoint. As befits this struggling
Hin, the Aggies will face another
llffii challenge when they host the
.laylor Bears at Kyle Field Saturday.
■* I On Aggie Head Coach Tom Wilson
J. Monday he is fully aware of the
’ nnnDiniBr en £ e ® a y^ or presents to his
‘ an( ] effects a w j n or | 0 ss
frsTve!' ^ ave on Texas A&M’s confer-
irst-year .f® record and remaining league
idontlK)u« dule
urf W “Sure, I’m familiar with the old
r dage that says your back is up
, Kst the wall after one conference
0rne U ® ut ^ at d° esn t bother me as
111 ' " uich as some of the other problems
r k” ‘zls us noW- * m J ust con ‘
r ayeartti ernc j that we continue to improve
ball team ed pl ay well.”
( n Wilson’s concerns are certainly
u nderstandable. As he pointed out to
kcdforjiL'jg weekly gathering of writers,
ing a WH^haps the biggest problem is the
ter a thir s it ua tion.
ar Invitati u n tii the Houston game, injuries
Hind her a( f no t been a particularly pressing
ic the Ht-roblem. Naturally, the team had
the BeaunjHed the play of safety John Daw-
ked excite. j n an( i the ankle injury to tailback
? called s( amest Jackson kept him out of a
ms in Hou'ljplc games.
r assessmetplowever, the situation has be-
StMisnot )me f ar more serious now. The
ims, at Itf'iiarterbacks have been especially
ird hit. Senior David Beal who ran
vere shellh^* offense so well after replacing
lion this [ike Mosley as the starter, is now
twelfth of!’at for at least two weeks with a wrist
only one (jury. If it turns out the wrist is
in could "roken, he’d be washed up for the
brget tie >ason.
> top thinp'That in itself would be bad
:k Sunda; nough. But now Mosley is no longer
homenrfW percent either. The Humble
guessed mior was shaken up badly after
Texas Tedjing slammed out of bounds by
:wed up Cougar defensive tackle Hosea
er Anne aylor. Wilson said he expected that
would probably affect the amount of
practice time Mosley gets this week.
“Of course, the real tragedy is the
injury to David Beal,” said Wilson.
“That’s not only for himself, but for
our whole football team. The offense
had really been coming along good
until now.”
Beal’s situation is certainly a
strange one. At this point, he really
doesn’t know whether or not he’ll be
able to play again this season. The
team physician, Dr. Duane Lagan,
said Monday it’s still hard to say
whether Beal’s wrist is broken.
“We’ve taken a number of x-rays,
and so far, no fracture has shown up
that we can point to, said Lagan.
“But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there
since he has all the symptoms of a
broken wrist. It’s possible that the
wrist could improve enough so that
he could begin working out again in
two weeks. Then again, we may de
termine in the next two weeks that it
is broken, which means it would
need a cast and David would be
washed up for the year.”
In the meantime, Beal’s wrist is
being kept immobilized without a
cast and Lagan continues to examine
and treat it each day. It’s one of those
situations where time will only tell as
Beal sits and wonders about the re
mainder of the season.
Asked if the late starting time of
the Cougar game helped bring on
the rash of injuries, Wilson said it’s
hard to blame anything in particular
for it, although the late hour and the
condition of the Astrodome field
were partially responsible.
“Sure, you can blame some of our
problems on the Astrodome field.
It’s one of the worst places in the
world to play a football game. It was
awful out there. Part of the field had
patches of dirt, and there were a lot
of holes in the Astroturf. I’m sure it
wasn’t helped any by them having to
change the field around because of
the baseball game.”
If the Aggies can overcome the
injuries, they still must find a way to
stop making the little errors that
often have a way of turning a poten
tial win into a loss.
“We were able to penetrate into
Houston territory fairly well, but we
kept turning the ball over and were
not able to take advantage of several
scoring opportunities,” said Wilson.
Looking ahead to Baylor, Wilson
said he felt this year’s team is the best
Bears squad he’s seen during his 17
years involvement in the Southwest
Conference. That would make it
even better than the team which de
lightfully surprised Baylor fans in
1974 by winning the conference
crown and went on to face Penn State
in the Cotton Bowl.
“I said it several weeks ago Baylor
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had a legitimate, good team and
they’ve proved that, ” reiterated Wil
son. “They’re playing very, very
good. Offensively, they’re very ba
lanced. They proved that by being
able to mount steady scoring drives
after being down 21-0 against SMU.
Walter Ambercrombie (tailback) is a
fine runner and their passing game
has solidified.”
Given the facts at hand, the 5-0
(3-0 in conference play) Bears seem
to be a clear-cut favorite to win
Saturday. But the Aggies may have a
secret weapon in their attitude,
which Wilson reported is good de
spite the discouraging loss to
Houston.
“Nobody played harder than our
team. I feel better about our football
team than I have in a long, long time.
Their attitude is fine. If we can over
come the injuries, we can still do
some good things.”
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