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THE BATTALION Page 9
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1980
&M, Hector knock off TCU, 13-10
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By KURT ALLEN
Battalion Staff
fter a dry spell whose length
Jed last summer’s heat wave,
jias A&M dipped in the well
irday and Brought up some
isive surprises to hold off TCU
i in a showdown for last place
be Southwest Conference,
contest, the last home game
b&M in 1980, had been billed
i offensive show featuring plen-
If scoring, but that failed to be
lease with the winning margin
ling out to be a 21-yard David
Idyfieldgoal. In fact, the major-
J)f the Aggies’ points were pro-
led by the sophomore placekick-
vho booted two field goals and
Jxtra point.
ie other Texas A&M offensive
ilights of the day were pro-
edby sophomore tailback John-
, Sector, who picked his way up
11 did not lj»down the field for a career-high
would l)i gijyjfds on 37 carries. He wound
inly four carries shy of the sing-
lame record set by Mark Green
ve can rec tlll 1971 a g a i n s t SMU.
jt performance also leaves Kee
nly 91 yards away from gaining
yards for the season. He
kild conceivably reach that mark
a good game against Texas in
tin Saturday.
(as Hector who became the cen-
iece of the new Aggie split back
delayed kljc nse unveiled by Head Coach
indoors, ilP 1 Wilson against the Horned
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ever, its use had been none-
lent until the TCU contest.
e are now a plit back team and
be a split back team next year, ”
lared Wilson. “It is better
led for our personnel — with
s team uin [jk e Hector, (Earnest) Jack-
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“Not that I am throwing out this
season, but we haven’t really been
too productive out of the T this
year either. This is something
we’ve needed to do for some time. ”
Wilson noted that his squad had
tried to use the split back attack at
the beginning of the year, but the
ensuing problems with injuries and
dismissals had caused a shuffling of
players, especially in the offensive
line. That forced the coaching staff
to stick with the I since the team
was more familiar with it.
Despite the sudden change, the
Horned Frogs, who finished with a
1-7 conference record and 1-10
overall, didn’t seem to be very
fazed. They held the Aggies to one
first down on their initial posses
sion and managed to eke out a 3-0
lead until Texas A&M tied the
game just before halftime.
“I was surprised to a degree, ’’ said
TCU Head Coach F.A. Dry. “But
we have faced it this year and it
didn’t appear to be upsetting to our
youngsters.”
That might not have upset Dry, but
there were other incidents on the
field that did bother him. Perhaps
the most frustrating came late in
the game when Frog offensive
tackle Bill Butler was ejected and
linebacker Kelvin Newton was la
ter reprimanded.
Butler’s ejection came after TCU
quarterback Steve Stamp had tos
sed a 34-yard touchdown pass to
flanker Phil Epps with 3:24 left in
the fourth quarter. During the suc
cessful conversion attempt, the
Frogs were penalized for a person
al foul and Butler was supposedly
ejected for something he said. The
15 yards were assessed on the
kickoff.
Then, as the Aggies tried to hold
their lead, Hector was dropped for
a three-yard loss on a second down
and eight play. The play was nulli
fied by offsetting penalties and it
looked like the down would be
played over.
Then the flak really hit the fan as
TCU was penalized another 15
yards on a personal foul call be
cause of something Newton
allegedly said. That meant an auto
matic first down for Texas A&M
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and helped wipe out any chance
the Frogs had of getting the ball
back. Incensed, Dry protested to
officials, but it did no good.
“And play late like that is a big
play,” Dry sighed later. “It had a
definite outcome on the game.
They (the officials) said he (New
ton) said something after the play,
but they never said what he said.”
The penalties merely capped what
had become a disappointing day for
the Frogs. Their vaunted passing
attack led by Stamp suffered all day
under the rainy weather and only
picked up 140 yards.
As usual, the TCU running game
was almost nonexistent and
accounted for only 94 yards. For
his part, Stamp completed 12 of 23
passes but also threw two intercep
tions.
”It wasn’t so much the rain as the
wet ball,” said Stamp. “I just
couldn’t grip it and force the ball in
there like I usually can. The ball
was really, slick.”
Meanwhile, Aggie quarterback
David Beal was having problems
throwing the ball too, but he had a
strong running game to take up the
slack. Texas A&M picked up 347
yards on the ground, including 52
by Jackson as well as Hector’s
effort.
“We controlled the ball well in the
first half and we ran the ball well, ”
said Beal. “That’s what we had to
do in the second half and that’s
what we did. I ran the split back
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comfortable with it in the second
half. I thought we did real well with
it after running it only one week. ”
There’s no doubt ball control was in
effect the first half. After a scoreless
first half, the Aggies mounted a
long drive to the TCU eight-yard
line, but a 25-yard Alan Smith field
goal attempt was blocked by Frog
safety Ken Bener.
Following TCU’s 36-yard field
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That drive was capped by a 31-yard
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Brown returned the ball 12 yards to
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TCU came back on Stamp’s pass to
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clock out with 1:23 left.
”We made the play (a bootleg) up, ”
said Beal. “I noticed the backside
defense had no consideration for
me, so I talked to Coach Wilson
about it and we decided to fake to
Johnny (Hector) and I would carry
the ball.”
Beal’s 12-yard run on the crucial
third and seven play at the 50 gave
the Aggies a first down and the
game.
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