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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980 Weekend Aggie results Oilers to keep tradition By JON HEIDTKE Battalion Staff WOMEN’S TRACK POLO The Texas A&M University’s men’s polo team tied the Austin Polo Club Sunday afternoon, 5-5, at the A&M polo fields. Tke starting lineup for the Aggies was: John Henserling, Doug Bryan, Roe Babers, Mike McLay, R.J. Roberts and Jorge Milberg. Sun Theatres 333 University 846-! The only movie in town 846-9808 Double-Feature Every Week 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. No one under 18 BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS * V Texas A&M women’s cross coun try season came to somewhat of an abrupt end Saturday in the SWAIAW regional meet in Fayette ville, Arkansas. As expected, the University of Texas captured the team champion ship, but the Aggies, who were ex pected to challenge for the second spot, finished a disappointing sixth. Coach Bill Nix said the basic reason for the Aggies’ low finish was due to an injury suffered by the team’s fifth runner, Annie Muniz. Muniz ruptured her Achilles tendon and failed to finish the race. As far as the rest of the team was concerned, Nix was pleased with their performances. Sandra Brown led the Aggies with a 16th place finish, and just missed qualifying for the national meet, which takes the top 15 individual finishers. Other Aggie finishers were Marilee Matheny, 17th; Lisa McCorstin, 18th; Barbara Collins- worth, 22nd; Adelaide Bratten, 31st and Beverly Porter, 41st. Finishing ahead of A&M was second place Oklahoma followed by Arkansas, LSU and Lamar. Nix said the season was “construc tive” since the Aggies fielded a very young team. “We will have everyone back next year,’’ Nix said, “and should have a better team.” But as for the rest of the region, Nix says it will also be tougher. “The high school women are all improving each year and there are also more foreign runners competing.” BICYCLE TEAM & Si V> BRUJERIAS i 5 SUPERSTITIONS a one-act piay\produced by Bill Ghauri of the Texas A&M Bicycle Club took first place Sunday in the TBS Fall Criterium held in Houston. The race, held at Bear Creek Park, had four main classes. Ghauri took the 18-mile Senior 4 race. EL TEATRO de la ESPERANZA Rudder Theater 800 p.m. Nov. 7, 1980 Presented By MSC CAMAC y Other Aggie finishers: Olympic Class, 43 miles long Gene Kraft, 6th place; Willem Vis- ser, 9th. Senior 3 race, 30 miles — Scott Yarbro, 5th; Tim Purcell, 6th. Women’s category, 18 miles— Laura Sandberg, 3rd; Karin Fem- bach, 4th. Ten Aggies competed in the race, which was run on a 1.1-kilometer circular track. United Press International HOUSTON — If the Houston Oil ers are hot, this must be November. As regular as the autumnal change, something more than cool weather comes over them each year at this time. Head Coach Bum Phil lips is at a loss to explain why, but his record speaks for itself. November 1977 — 3-1. November 1978 — 4-0. November 1979 — 4-0. November 1980 — 1-0. If the trend continues, the Oilers will still lead AFC Central Division by the time you flip your calendar because they have four more games this month, including one Monday night against the New England Pat riots. Phillips doesn’t know how to ex plain the late-season drives which have carried the Oilers to two con secutive wild-card playoff berths. “I don’t have a good answer for that. I just hope that we coach better and play better each quarter of a game. The season is the same way, too,” Phillips said Monday at his weekly news conference. “Back earlier this season when ya’ll (reporters) were second gues sing us — which is your privilege — when we weren’t doing things right, we weren’t putting everything into it,” he said. “I don’t think you can keep a team improving if you put everything into it early in the season.” He said two coaching mistakes are working athletes too hard early in the season and overstressing the import ance of early games. “You might win more ballgames that way, but it’s gonna hurt you in the long run. We’re still playing with people. We’re not playing with machines. Those people get tired just like everybody else gets tired. They get bored like everybody else gets bored,” he said. His pre-game speech changed, however, last Sunday. He told his players before playing the Denver Broncos “beating a good team on their field was very, very impor tant. The Oilers got a big lift from the return of wide receiver Kenny Bur- rough, who missed the first eight games with a twisted knee. Bur- rough caught three passes for 79 yards Sunday. Phillips, who expressed displea sure over the referee s handling of an inadvertent whistle which cost the Oilers a touchdown, termed Hous ton’s 20-16 triumph as “probably the best football game we’ve played this year. It was a game we had to win. It was against a team that had to win. Phillips said he would take no ac tion against back judge J. W. Sanders or referee Gene Barth because their decision to strip Carl Roaches of a 74-yard punt return was the correct action even though “they just really messed up.” NFL rules state a referee’s whis tle, whether intentional or not, stops play. Sanders apologized to Phillips af ter the Sunday incident Referees huddled as Phi gratulated punt returner and the Oilers’ extra p 0 ^ lined up to kick. ■ "Nobody came over and, anything after their huddle U ip feree should have walked and said, ‘Now coach, I hard to believe but we g, Ald back because the refinadw blew his whistle.’ But they* back down the field with the!/ nobody is telling anybody anii he said. ^ Phillips said he was st than 15 feet from Sanders hear a whistle. He game film showed Sanders . bumped from behindandapn^ exhaling with the whistle mouth. R Re The inadvertent whistle wj second in the past two weeksii ers games. Against the Cincc Bengals, defensive tackle Jesse er was running in the open fielo, picking up a fumble when sfe by a whistle. The latest referee’s mistake,! lips said, proved again an olds of his: referees never beat you “They didn’t yesterday, but tried. That game was a pretty example and what I’ve said ! cost you a touchdown, butyom back to play the type of bally capable of playing. And you do; it get you down. And ahead and win anyhow," v> $$ SWC race 'jumbled” after upsets Ticket Information- MSC Box Office - 845-1234 They sat in a row in the press box at Texas Stadium last Saturday, trying to keep up with the upsets. First there was Alabama, then Baylor. Texas was being beaten for the second straight week and the shiny unbeaten record of North Carolina was being battered by the Oklahoma Sooners. And the representatives from va rious bowl games around the country — eight of them — were all but over whelmed by the news. “I don’t know about you,” said one to another in only a half-joking man ner, “but we may have a 7-4 team playing a 6-5 team.” Down the row a little bit was a representative from the Cotton Bowl, whose dreams of a national tyiimBORNE' "THE DIFFICULT WE DO IM MEDIATELY, THE IMPOSSIBLE TAKES A LITTLE LONGER" 1 AGENT AERO AIR FREIGHT SERVICES i championship showdown between Alabama and Texas had been des troyed by the happenings of the past two weekends. “I don’t know what it all means,” he said. “Things are pretty jum bled.” “Jumbled” also describes the state of the Southwest Conference these days with private schools — long the doormat of the league — holding three of the top four spots in the standings. But despite the wave of upsets the Baylor Bears are still in the prime position for at least a share of the SWC crown and a trip to the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1 against who knows who. Baylor could even wrap up a share of the title next Saturday if the Bears can defeat Arkansas and the Texas Longhorns should break out of their slump and whip the Houston Cougars. To do so, however, the Bears must bounce back from their first loss of the year, a 30-22 upset at the hands of San Jose State. “The big thing about this game is how it will affect us mentally,” said Baylor coach Grant Teaff, whose team had climbed to No. 11 national ly with a 7-0 record. “We do not have the luxury to slowly regroup. We’ve got a tough game with Arkansas next week (in Waco). Now all we have to do is concentrate on beating them because the rankings and other out side national attention is over now.” Houston is alone in second place at 4-1 (to the Bears’ 5-0), but that one loss has been to Baylor. Houston, two-time defending SWC champion and winners of four in a row after crunching TCU last Saturday, 37-5, will face Texas in Austin and the Lon ghorns will have some recouping of their own to do. The Longhorns 24-20 loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock was their second setback in a row and although they will still probably wind up with a WE DO MORE THAN DELIVER YOUR PACKAGE OVERNIGHT WE GUARANTEE IT! 150 CITIES $22.11 UP TO 2 LBS. THE FREIGHT PROBLEM SOLVERS' PH: 713-779-FAST P.O. BOX 3862 BRYAN, TX. 77801 l l l \ 1 postseason appearance they have dropped drastically in the eyes of the bowl people around the land. But the surprises do not end with Baylor and Texas. Tied for third place in the confer ence race at 3-2 are the SMU Mus tangs and Rice Owls. SMU improved its season mark to 6-2 with a 27-0 blasting of Texas A&M, a win keyed by the play of special team members John Sim mons and Byron Hunt; and Rice staged a wild fourth-quarter rally to defeat Arkansas, 17-16. The Owls won their third game in a row thanks to a 31-yard field goal by Kenneth Sam with 21 seconds remaining. “We might even get some of the bowl people interested,” said Rice coach Ray Albom, whose team had not won three straight since 1972. “Wouldn’t that be something?” The bowl people, meanwhile, were more than interested in SMU. “There were so many colored blaz ers in our dressing room that I thought I had walked into the wrong one,” said SMU coach Ron Meyer, whose Mustangs are assurred a win- Royce W rap from sportswr In a co had been fired at t He di< Worth S “AH I me. I thi start. An “I thin misfortui to do wit plain to s stadium anywher better re hear it o “We’n we’re ge Wisen of the se Stephen’ “I woi Wilson’s “Ith Coa mat slim ning season for the first time five-year tenure with the sj “I’m not used to that.” The SMU victory, backing win over Texas a week earliei Meyer in a gleeful mood. “I think this is a big steplt making us a legitimate top20fo team,” he said. Former Texas coach Di Royal, who was commentatii the regional telecast of the A&M game, put it this way: “You can only keep a coring: water just so long.” Rice and SMU will meel Saturday in Houston. Awinfoi will make them a certainbonli i cipant. A victory for Rice, i s while, would up the OwlstoS- f could, indeed, makethemapri It for postseason play. Next Saturday’s other confe game has Texas Tech travel winless TCU. In five of the years the Horned Frogs have least nine games and they will that figure again Saturday if I to the Red Raiders. people a day. But year.” Icomi tion of \ made th done it. The v phere si tionalisn coaches, ought to Now, Regent 1 commen Tom \ “trial.” ] closed d team top He ha given thi respecta dence oi Texas If you’re interested in studying' OK PIZZA & SUBS law at a quality school in one of the fastest growing legal environments in the nation, come by and talk with us. We’ll be on campus with helpful information. 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