Page 12 THE BATTALION
^ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1980
Sports
Improving Owls look to ambush Ag
By KURT ALLEN
Battalion Staff
When the 1980 season began, few
people expected the Texas A&M-
Rice game to be anything resembling
a close contest. But all that has
changed in the last seven weeks.
Rice is no longer an easy win for its
opponents and the Aggies are poss-
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the last eight years.
Believe it or not, the Owls have
already won more games this season
than they did all of last year. That
may not seem like much considering
Rice was 1-10 in 1979, but the Owls
are 2-4 so far, including a Southwest
Conference win. Winning a confer
ence game is something Rice never
got close to doing last year.
An even closer inspection shows
the two Owl wins were 17-7 and 28-
24 decisions over LSU and TCU re
spectively. Rice also managed to
score 21 points in the fourth quarter
against Texas to make a rout a re
spectable loss. Then, just last week,
the Owls gave Texas Tech a scare by
nearly upsetting the Red Raiders be
fore losing 10-3.
The logical question which comes
to mind would be what all these facts
and statistics mean. What they mean
is that Rice can no longer be taken for
granted. It also means Texas A&M
has got to get its act together after
being dismantled 46-7 by Baylor in
waterlogged Kyle Field.
Much of the Owls’ new-found
vigor can be traced to Head Coach
Ray Alborn’s “Great Overhaul of
1980.’’ After 27 pass interceptions
and 15 fumbles last year, Albom re
placed the traditional passing offense
with a double option version of the
veer.
Since the new offense was intro
duced, Alborn has added a slight
twist to it. He now uses two quarter
backs extensively. Junior Robert
Hoffman takes care of running the
veer and senior Randy Hertel
comes on in certain downs to run
the passing attack.
The veer was instituted to lend
steadiness and consistency to the
Owls, but no one would have known
it by watching Rice’s inept perform
ance against Tech. The Owls turned
the ball over seven times (five fum
bles and two interceptions) and had
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Fance had 64 of the Owls 154 „ , . , .
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Pe Drfe“°vty Rice has no big- ™tchup between 1,
name players’ this year, but the “ d e ^f‘7 n t“' d b ''>>««
squad is getting the job done never- te , resting ,n , year ?- But there
one punt blocked with another punt
traveling only 14 yards.
Even so, Rice came very close to
upsetting Tech and as a result,
Alborn anticipates replacing only
one player from the starting team.
That change affects the punter.
The new No. 1 Rice punter is
Doug Johnson, a freshman quarter
back from Pasadena Dobie who re
placed sophomore Dale Walters as of
Monday. Walters had a rough night
against Tech, booting one punt 14
yards that set up the lone Raider
touchdown. He also had one punt
blocked, sending his average drop
ping to 35.3 yards per kick.
“We felt we needed a change,”
said Alborn of the move. “But that
doesn’t mean it’ll be permanent
either. ”
Meanwhile, Johnson was the lead
ing punter in his high school’s dis
trict in 1979, with a38.1 average. His
best kick was 58 yards, and only one
punt was blocked. He has yet to punt
in a college game.
Among the offensive starters is the
second leading rusher in the confer
ence, Cal Fance, who has gained 501
yards on 113 carries for a 4.4 yards
per carry average. Senior fullback
Frank Wilson provides additional
yardage.
theless. Albom said he feels his de
fense has played well enough to win
and has praise for such players as
linebacker Robert Williamson (6-1,
224), end Will Rub (6-4, 229) and
nose guard Brad Bierstedt (6-3, 240).
Albom also found some humor ab
out the coin toss, saying his players
would have to work on it before play
ing the Aggies. It seems the Rice
captains gave the Raiders not only
the wind on last week’s kickoff, but
also the ball.
Rice enters College Station Satur
day under conditions similar to 1978.
That year, the Aggies had also lost
consecutively to Houston (33-0) and
Baylor (24-6). It was after the Baylor
game of course, that then Head
Coach Emory Bellard resigned. Cur
rent field boss Tom Wilson took over
the reins and smoked the Owls 38-
21. It remains to be seen whether
Texas A&M can repeat history
Saturday.
There’s no doubt that Rice is fired
up and it isn’t only because the Owls
know they have their best shot in
years to beat the Aggies. Perhaps
just as important a reason is the fact
Albom lost not one, but two offen
sive coordinators to Wilson and the
Aggies in just a matter of months.
other item that should add
dimension to this year’s
seems the Marching Owl L
ter known as the MOB,
make the trip to College
well.
TheMOBhasanewbanddirt
this year who hails from USC.l j
interview with a Houston new®
last month, the new head maa:
he felt the hostility betweenRict
other conference schools, espej
Texas A&M, was in the past.
The plan is for the MOB t
tinue its routines with imprt,
musicianship. However, fori
schools which are a bit touchier
MOB will be toning thing!
little this year.
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leads Sp
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First Ted Unbehagen left the
Owls for the lucrative Texas A&M
program in January. Then his re
placement, Dick Rader, left after
being on the Rice payroll just five
weeks. Alborn had been counting on
Rader to teach the Owls all the finer
points of the veer system.
Ironically, an Aggie wound up suc
ceeding Unbehagen and Rader at
Rice. He’s George Cortez, and along
with new offensive coordinator Les
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Tuesday night.
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the Spurs up 121-116.
Top 20
United Press International
NEW YORK —The United
International Board of Coache
20 college football ratings after!
weeks, with first-place votesu
cords in parentheses.
1. Alabama (36) (6-0)
2. Texas (2) (5-0)
3. UCLA (3) (5-0)
4. Notre Dame (1) (5-0)
5. Georgia (6-0)
6. Florida St. (6-1)
7. North Carolina (6-0)
8. Nebraska (5-1)
9. Southern Cal (5-0-1)
10. Ohio State (5-1)
11. Pittsburgh (5-1)
12. Penn State (5-1)
13. Baylor (6-0)
14. Arkansas (4-1)
15. South Carolina (6-1)
16. Missouri (5-1)
17. Oklahoma (3-2)
18. Brigham Young (5-1)
19. Washington (5-1)
20. Southern Miss. (6-0)
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