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ids gloss mystifies players; ears enjoy 47-6 victory THE BATTALION Page 9 MONDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1980 ^ By RICHARD OLIVER Sports Editor ckle — (ta-kel), v. The act of mg, as in football. To seize; to =NTIX E Mo^T old of. tylor defender came grinning B field late in the third quarter, had just blocked a desperation |A&M pass, and was obviously Bng himself. e sidled up to Bears’ star line- ir Mike Singletary and the two wed the play again. The defen- la s ed out at the somber maroon jjvliite troops and laughed, shak es head. “You can’t respect a Klike that.” P Aggies were indeed given a on in humility Saturday. Bne it on the rain, blame it on Biprisingly quiet Aggie crowd, « pne it on bad play selection by t&M coaches, the fact remains h ■ /)jpowerful Baylor team doused 1 I ^lA&M’s Cotton Bowl hopes ^ a46-7 rout that will live as one of |forst performances ever by an e team. ie Bears amassed 457 yards 1st the Aggie defense, which our outil I seem to be able to stop any- ij the Bears ran at them. The remember L m i sse{ l numerous tackles, hen Teuljiled to execute against the one ook the Bjjjn the conference they needed npiledaS .jcecute perfectly against. The Igained 151 yards through the c towardIm 306 on ground. All this nen f " pined despite a monsoon-like after a lArm that flooded Kyle Field in r ay thinksltfearly stages of the game. The lent abilititljseemed only spurred on by the n opponeilljlrenching they received from >d shotatt|oes, racking up 241 yards in the 1 last spn*alf alone. ut ourexe Mi, on the other hand, endured reeked, absolutely miserable first half, ir for fon|Dg only 34 yards total, 21 pas- 1 some smfand 13 rushing. The Aggies 3ur peopled the crowd with one first 5od baseni'fjin the half on their second play earns weiefe game. When the final game d. washed in, A&M had untracked this fall, |for235 yards, 142 passing and 93 mccessbil be ground. They worked for 12 yers atttejjlowns in the game. Baylor had iceded net lenge. Ni laylor’s third win in a row over icir minds ju A&M was surprisingly easy, as ow theytjBears were picked beforehand 3 country Kmere touchdown. However, , the Ajgflne forgot to tell Baylor. be Bears kicked a field goal with perfect 15) left in the first quarter, and nits. McDjceda Kyle Stuard punt out of the aign at li jzone for a safety early in the id to forge ahead 5-0, and the 1 record«« promptly collapsed, nto the Skper the game, a once-again un- m had anti centage, over .30 happy Aggie Head Coach Tom Wil son stared blankly at a wall as the press questioned him. “It’s very obvious we got out- coached and outplayed,” he said evenly. “Once again we didn’t do a good job of anything. Baylor was a better football team all-around. “You always go into a game think ing you are prepared, but it was ob vious they were better prepared, and I take the blame for that.” After taking the blame, Wilson re sponded to a question about the alumni pressure he would probably receive this week: “People that talk don’t bother me that much. I’m not going to quit though if that’s what you’re asking. I said when I took this job that I was going to do the very best I could and I still stand by that. I’m going to do it with my head up and if that’s not good enough they can bring somebody else in.” The A&M players, however, were not quite ready to lay the blame on the coaches. “They (coaches) can’t play for us, ” said cornerback Burnis Simon. “We’ve got to get more enthusiasm. We know what we gotta do. It’s not the coaches’ fault. It’s us.” Defensive lineman Mack Moore was more specific. “It was a lot of missed tackles,” he said in the understatement of the year. “We’ve got to get it together. Everybody’s going to be coming down here thinking they can beat us.” The Aggies’ defensive star, Jeff Farrar, who pulled down two inter ceptions in the game, spoke softly of A&M’s failure to execute the basics once again. “We’ve got to find something to pull us together,” he said slowly. “We get down. Until we can find out what’s wrong ... Farrar looked back at the recent drug investigations on the team. “Well, that hurt the team,” he said. “It pulled us together for a week, and then we fell apart. “We’ve got to do some soul- searching this week.’’ Despite the various explanations, no excuses were offered by the Aggies for their performance. “It was another one of those days,” said quarterback Mike Mosley, who played the first two quarters. “We ll probably have another one. I don’t mean tbis year. It’s the second one we’ve had all year.” Mosley refused to blame it on the downpour. “It was raining on their side of the field, too, you know,” he shrugged. gs take Texas four times ICS Texas A&M men’s volleyball wept the University of Texas |ir straight games Friday before ) 0l d °f fans. J m jrn P Aggies use d a variety of line- in the evening contest and en s so p of the oome c prising, ook offl e onthei'i Razorbas ■' ly a 2-2 lx ^ ead into 5 Aggies reti p d half "k y: on scored. rack Rick fs last so" who slip? dominated play in all four matches. “I was disappointed in their (Lon ghorns) play since there was no sus pense,” said coach Dave Schakel. “They didn’t play like they could.” ice led ind Station ation AGGIES! Double! A3 Jcwe 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Bryan (212 N. Main) and Culpepper Plaza Texas A&M University CALENDAR OF EVENTS 1980-1981 158 pages Photographs Important Dates University Events $10 worth of Discount Coupons only $2.25 A Planning Guide Every Aggie Should Have On Sale at these locations MSC Box Office MSC Room 216 MSC Craft Shop MSC Finance Center Designed and published bp Memorial Student Center Calendar of Events Committee “We saw the true Ag fans today. The ones that stayed.” Until Gary Kubiak pushed over from three yards out with 24 seconds left, the Kyle Field record 69,735 fans saw nothing to cheer about, and the yell leaders obliged by not lead ing many yells. At halftime, the Bears took a 25-0 lead to the locker rooms, and for a time in the third quarter it looked like the Aggies would hang tough. But a young man named Walter Abercrombie took the wind out of A&M’s sails quickly. The Bears all-time leading ground gainer bounced off several hapless Aggie tacklers to race 71 yards with 12:14 left: in the third quarter to put Baylor on top 32-0. Abercrombie en ded the day with 143 yards on 24 carries, his third best rushing day ever. During the third quarter, Baylor defensive end Steve Malpass sat on his water-covered bench and consi dered the Aggies performance. “I’m surprised they’re playing like this, we thought it would be a little tougher,” he said. “Once we got ahead, it was like they gave up. A&M’s always been like that. You get ahead on them and they don’t come back.” Gary Kubiak, who played most of the second half after Mosley couldn’t seem to ever get untracked, was con fused over the Aggies’ performance. “I don’t know what we’ve got to do,” he said, staring at the floor. “Nobody can put a finger on what it is. Something good s got to happen for us. I guess when they scored, some of the players thought, “well, here we go again.’ “It seems like they (opposing teams) hop out there and score and then it’s ‘here we go again.’” Free safety Darrell Adams agreed. “When we get behind, some of them (Aggie players) say, ‘let’s cover up and put our heads down’ and they forget to play the rest of the 60 mi nutes.” In the jubilant Baylor locker room after the game, one excited Bear gave an indication of just how forgettable the Aggies’ performance was. Asked what he thought of A&M, he said, “We can take them.” Then he turned and asked a fellow player, “Hey, who do we play next?” TCU was the reply. The player turned to the inter viewer once again. “We don’t worry about A&M. We won’t worry about A&M until we get there.” Texas A&M defensive lineman James Baldwin strips Baylor quarterback Jay Jeffrey of the ball in action Saturday at Kyle Field. Fellow lineman Keith Guthrie pounced on the ball for Lacrosse team is 3-0 Staff photo by Pat O’Malley an A&M recovery in one of the few bright spots of the day for the 2-4 Aggies as the Bears drowned the A&M Cotton Bowl hopes with a 46-7 win. The Aggie lacrosse team raised its record to 3-0 this weekend with two victories. The first came Saturday on the rain-soaked drill field, where Texas A&M swamped Baylor, 19-1. On Sunday, the Aggies travelled to San Antonio to take on the San Antonio Lacrosse Club, and walked away with a 13-5 victory. 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