THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1981
Page 11
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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