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THE BATTALION Page 9
MONDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1980
^ By RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
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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.
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“I was disappointed in their (Lon
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pense,” said coach Dave Schakel.
“They didn’t play like they could.”
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“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.
A&M next plays against SMU on
Nov. 1.
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