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United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston Oilers
placekicker Toni Fritsch was found
to have a “slight bulge” between two
vertabrae of his backbone, and more
tests were made to determine what it
was, a team spokesman said
Tuesday.
Fritsch, who was hospitalized
Saturday, was reported feeling fine
after traction eased the pain he had
experienced in his lower back and
upper right leg.
Fritsch’s status for the Oilers’
game Sunday against the Minnesota
Vikings was uncertain. “He still
could play,” the spokesman said.
Doctors believe Fritsch has been
playing the last three games with a
ruptured disc, and Oilers Media
Director Bob Hyde said sophisti
cated x-ray tests made Monday “re
vealed a slight bulge between the
fourth and fifth vertabrae. Because
the test was inconclusive,” he said,
“they have done other testing.”
Fritsch’s replacement in last Sun
day’s game, Chester Marcol, flew to
Houston from Green Bay, Wise.
Tuesday. He was to practice with the
team for the first time Wednesday.
Head coach Bum Phillips held no
workout Tuesday.
14th-ranked Ags travel
to Virginia for tourney
By RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M University men’s basketball team,
coming off an easy tournament title at the First Union
Invitational in Charlotte, N.C. last week, takes off for
Virginia this week to participate in the Virginia Tech
Invitational Friday and Saturday.
The Aggies, despite being 5-0, were dropped to 14th
in the weekly UPI rankings Tuesday after being ranked
12th the week before.
A&M will play the Tames Madison Dukes Friday at 8
p.m. CST, as the second of a twin bill. In the first game
at 6 p.m., Virginia Tech will play Pittsburgh.
The Friday losers play at 6 p.m. Saturday and the
championship game is set for 8 p.m. Saturday night.
James Madison was 18-8 last year, and has four re
turning starters on hand, including top scorer Linton
Townes, a 6-6 junior forward, with a 14.6 average and
5.6 rebounding average.
Other starters for the Dukes are Steve Blackmon,
Dan Ruland, David DuPont and Charles Fisher.
In the First Union Classic tournament last week, the
Aggies thrilled Head Coach Shelby Metcalf by shooting
an incredible 68 percent from the floor in the final
against Davidson.
Vernon Smith, the event’s MVP, scored 30 points and
had 13 rebounds against the University of North Caroli-
na-Charlotte in the 75-64 win Friday night, and had 10
points and 10 rebounds in the Saturday 76-62 win over
Davidson.
Rynn Wright, who also made the All-Tournament
team along with Smith, scored 24 against Davidson.
Rudy Woods, the 6-11 junior from Bryan, overcame
his early season inconsistency long enough to score 24
points while snagging 10 rebounds.
But it was Tyrone Ladson who stole the show. The
senior ball handler pleased Metcalf to no end.
“Tyrone played super and I thought he should have
made all-tournament,” said the coach. “He was very
effective plugging holes defensively and even stopped a
four-on-one break by Davidson. He is in excellent phy
sical condition and is playing very intellectual basket
ball.”
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ermeil, Eagles not
taking Pokes too lightly
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — The fact that Dallas is all but
iminated from a shot at the NFC East title doesn’t
ley, and thosew ji c fi an g e an y of Dick Vermeil’s plans for the Philadelphia
pkgles’ game Sunday against the Cowboys.
linkwecan(blB , With Dallas’ 38-14 loss Monday night to the Los
lefits," Simpso: J§M? e l es Rams, the Eagles can clinch their first division
le is treading«' st * de ‘ n 20 years by defeating the Cowboys at Texas
’ territory. #il stadium or losing by a margin of no more than 25 points.
, “'My Cod'fa® But Vermeil, the Eagles’ coach, said the lopsided
j|y look intodefeat doesn’t change a thing for his team.
1 “Our goal is not to lose by 25 points,” he said. “Our
red, Simpson®, goal is to go down there and whip them. As far as I’m
to look intotb toncerned, this is going to fire them up even more,
re and benefits! We re going to try to beat them and that’s all there is to
ik we’re going id it.
ting and watclil l' 1 “if W e don’t play better offensively than we did
I against the Cardinals (a 17-3 win for the Eagles last
K-dini area I ^nday), the Cowboys are very capable of beating us by
1 26 points.”
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onsider wheto
If the Cowboys should beat the Eagles, they will tie
for the division lead with 12-4 records. The two teams
would be deadlocked in the first four tiebreakers —
head-to-head competition (1-1), record within the divi
sion (6-2), record within the conference (8-3) and record
against common opponents (3-1).
But the fifth tiebreaker is best net points in division
games, and the Eagles have a plus-50 advantage in that
category.
Vermeil said Sunday’s game is anything but meaning
less.
“There’s no such thing as a meaningless football
game,” he said. “I think that’s a rotten thing to sell to a
football team. Sometimes a playoff team gets beat on the
last week of the season and it creates doubt. Last year,
we went to Houston to play a so-called ‘meaningless’
game and beat them, and we intend to approach this
game the same way.”
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It can only get better.
| The Texas A&M University
ffomen’s basketball team will be in
Pallas this weekend to play SMU
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|hd somewhere along the way Head
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I 9 ur biggest problem is shoot-
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,lze > Rapp said after that loss. “We
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more guard Sherry Winn is leading
the Aggies in scoring with a 14.6 av
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by Kelley Sullivan, 8.7; Tammy
Grafton, 8.5; Cathy Fuller, 8.1; and
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