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THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1981 Page 11 Lionel who? Linebacker Mike Little of fers Houston quarterback Lionel Wilson a taste of Ag gie hospitality via a bone crushing hit as defensive end Keith Baldwin leaps for the block. The Aggie played one of the most physical games of the year, pound ing the Cougar backs and receivers into submission. Staff photo by Greg Gammon eepf in plav irtanl Aggie win ‘painful’ for Coogs eksont: 1 yanls arentl) )wn he Cotj By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB Battalion Staff As University of Houston wide receiver onell Phea limped out of the shower after his toanoi! ^ball team’s 7-6 loss to the Texas Aggies, his Cojj ained expression told the story. The bloody i ashes on his shoulders and the caution with 'hich he walked showed what a beating he had aken in the Cougars’ loss. After getting his scraped shoulders ban- the 5-11, 175-pound Phea made his ray toward his locker, finding that walking u ( U pf; aok much more effort than it had three hours 'id ot e J° re - . . , Ipaid thepnee, but that s what a receiver s pposed to do,” Phea said. “They always talk irow | . bout how little I am, but even if I am little, it’s oingto take more than a couple of licks to get down.” eft inti The Aggie and Cougar defenses spent the ntire game inflicting pain on the members of ach team’s offense. As it turned out, Phea Irewmore attention from the Texas A&M de- ense than anyone, but still managed to catch c t0l|( ive passes for 89 yards. j t0 |j Phea quickly added that the loss wouldn’t o lizzl ^ am P en the spirits of the Cougars, who now nust return home to face 5-0 Southern Methodist University. Were going to be up for SMU. Most peo- ^1 ile think we aren’t, but we are, ” Phea said. Aggie quarterback Gary Kubiak’s 43-yard later in oi liroml ft eid d and firewi touchdown run with 1:35 left in the third quar ter gave Texas A&M the first lead of the game, but members of both squads were startled by Kubiak’s sudden burst of speed. UH coach Bill Yeoman said he didn’t feel that Kubiak’s rushing was a determining factor in the game, even though the Aggie junior finished with 91 yards on 15 carries. "I don’t know what happened on that one he (Kubiak) got loose on,” Yeoman said. “He gained a couple of yards here and there, but he didn’t kill anyone. Aggie linebacker Mike Little, who with 11 tackles tied linebacker Bobby Strogen and de fensive end Keith Baldwin for the team lead, said Kubiak’s touchdown run surprised everyone. “I was shocked, ” he laughed. “I never knew he could run that fast.” After allowing the Cougars to score a touch down with 1:04 in the game. Little and the rest of the Aggie defense stopped quarterback Lionel Wilson’s desperate two-point conver sion attempt. Wilson threw a pass to fullback David Barrett, but the pass was underthrown and the Aggies were able to keep the ball until time ran out. Little, who defended on the two-point attempt, said the Cougars were nearly successful in their efforts to leave with an 8-7 win. “If he (Barrett) wouldn’t have gotten the heat on him, and (the turf) hadn’t been slip pery and the pass hadn’t been bad, it might have been a different outcome,” Little said. Yeoman said he felt that Wilson, even with 15 completions in 26 attempts for 216 yards, wasn’t as effective as he had been against the Baylor Bears the previous week. “Our little quarterback just didn’t quite have a good day,” Yeoman said. “He’s a sopho more and he’s going to have his bad days. Bless his heart, it just wasn’t one of his good days. “We went down and just couldn’t get the ball in the end zone. We just couldn’t quite execute the way we had to execute, and the way he (Wilson) will.” Wilson said Yeoman was right in his decision to go for the two points instead of the tie. “We really wanted to win this game and we knew it was do or die in that situation, ” Wilson said. “We had to do whatever it took to score. “We should have gotten the football in the end zone the first half. A&M has a good foot ball team, I’ve got to give them credit. It’s just that any given day any team can win. ” The most valuable lesson learned by the Cougars about the game was that they shouldn’t underestimate their opponents. Yeoman, visibly upset by the outcome of the game, said Houston didn’t learn much from the one-point loss. “There has to be some good out of every thing, but there’s darn little good in losing.” MoneyStore offers no service charge checking with a $250 balance. Every dollar earns 5 1 /4% — regardless of balance. MoneyStore is unlike any other checking account. 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The uncharacteristic Oiler per formance Sunday was a balance between the running of Earl Campbell and the passing of Ken Stabler, which provided for a 35- 17 rout of the Seahawks and which allowed local fans an unaccus tomed relaxed fourth quarter. When Campbell wasn’t car rying on one of his team record setting 39 carries Sunday, Stabler was faking the run to him and throwing his soft passes over the Seahawks heads. “The passing game obviously depends on how well you run the ball,” said Stabler. Campbell pounded the Sea hawks for 186 yards and two short touchdown runs, while Stabler passed for 156 yards and three touchdowns of between 24 and 32 yards. Middle guard Ken Cannard put the game into perspective from a defensive standpoint: “Our offense performed beautifully to day. It really enabled our defense to get a much needed rest. The Snake (Stabler) went out and per formed like we knew he would.” Despite previous offensive problems. 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