THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1981
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IRVING — The Dallas Cow-
loys honored one cornerhack
iunday and the Miami Dolphins
nitiated another, hut at the end of
gloomy and improbable after-
toon at Texas Stadium the be-
aguered Everson Walls had the
ast word.
Before Walls could have the
inal say, however, the Cowboys
lut together another of the shock-
ig rallies for which they have
aken out a patent in recent years.
This could have been one of
'iir great games,’ said dejected
diami coach Don Shula, who saw
lie two clubs combine for 1,005
ards and create a season’s worth
jfbigplays. “Instead it was a bit-
Hfer defeat,”
In brief, the Cowboys were 13
N oints behind with less than four
linutes to play and suddenly
>und themselves ahead by one
ritb 3;J7 to go — holding on to
efeat the stunned Dolphins, 28-
Biifthe manner in which it all
ippened will occupy a promin-
nt place in Cowboys’ history and
ut the Dolphins morale to the
st through the second half of the
Miami quarterback David
Voodley completed 21 of 37 pas-
es for 408 yards to bring the Dol-
hins back from an eight-point
alftime deficit. He threw three
inchdown passes, hit on eight
irows of 20 yards or more and
me after time burned Walls — a
ee agent rookie.
But after the Cowboys had sud-
enly shot in front, Walls inter-
epted a pass at the Dallas 4-yard
.uewith less than a minute to play
owipeout Miami’s last bit threat
nd another rookie, Mike Downs,
licked off another Woodley pass
nth eight seconds to go.
Woodley, who had thrown only
»ointerceptions all year and who
ame into the game with a streak
95 straight throws without a
lickoff, wound up throwing five
asses into the hands of the Cow
ays.
It was an up and down day, ”
iid Walls. “But that’s just like my
season has been. We did
hat we have been doing all year.
gave up the big play, but we
nade the big interceptions. So I
[ness that’s all you can expect.’
Dallas took a 14-6 halftime lead
i a touchdown run of five yards
y Ron Springs and a 21-yard
bow from Dannv White to Butch
Johnson. Miami had countered
with a 5-yard pass from Woodley
to running back Tony Nathan, but
after that score Uwe von Scha-
mann ’s extra point bounced off the
right upright — the miss that
eventually proved the difference.
Miami bolted in front with
three unanswered touchdowns in
the second half — a 69-yard throw
from Woodley to Cefalo, a 10-yard
run by Nathan and a 4-yard toss to
tight end Joe Rose.
But after the final Miami touch
down Dallas zipped 79 yards to
score on a 5-yard White-to-Doug
Cosbie pass and two plays follow
ing the kickoff Woodley threw his
third interception of the day.
That was a pickoff by safety De
nnis Thurman, who returned the
ball to the Miami 32. On the very
next play White covered the dis
tance with a pass to Springs, who
had broken behind fellow Ohio
State graduate Bob Brudzinski.
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By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Throughout the first half of the
season, the 1981 Texas A&M foot
ball team has been one of mystery.
First, it was the defense that
came through. In the next game,
the defense let down and the
offense could not come through.
Then the offense became a shining
gem of explosive exploits in the
next game.
A pattern developed. Either
the offense or the defense would
hold up or collapse, and never, of
course, would the two hold up in
the same game.
The 51-26 thrashing of Rice did
nothing to dispel that train of de
velopment. The exception was,
however, that for a half, one com
plete, whole half, both the offense
and defense held their own.
The offense exploded and the
defense was dominating. The
Aggies scored 31 points to seven
for the Rice Owls. While Texas
A&M was gaining 264 total offen
sive yards, the Owls had been able
to scratch out only 96.
The domination was total in the
first half. Rice did not get a first
down until mid-way throught the
second quarter and that was on an
A&M facemask penalty.
And the offense even won the
second half with 20 points but the
defense let up and allowed 19. The
defense just could not hold up for
the entire game. By the time the
game ended, the Aggie defense
had allowed 379 yards, with 361 of
that coming through the air.
Rice quarterback Michael
Calhoun riddled the Aggie secon
dary in the second half and made a
run-away into a statistically close
game. The game ended with A&M
leading yardage offensively 486 to
Rice’s 379 in a game that was not as
close as the stats indicated.
Yet, while the Ag defense did
not keep it going for an entire
game, at least the offense did not
make as many mistakes as they
have in the past.
In fact, the most mistakes Texas
A&M had in this game came at
halftime. While most of the Aggie
band halftime show can be classi
fied as a disaster, and should apply
for federal relief funds, rumor has
it that the last time the band made
such a major mistake was in 1967
when A&M won the Gotten Bowl.
But a difference of 306 yards
between the first and second
halves can also be classified as an
inexplicable mistake. How can a
Analysis
however, the 41 first half rushing
yards was reduced to 18 by the
end of the game. A large cause of
that reduction was the Aggie pass
rush which recorded six sacks for
53 lost yards.
But the Owls did not lay down
and die. Early in the fourth quar
ter, with the game already out of
reach, the Owls went for a touch
down on a fourth and nine at the
Aggie nine yard line. The pass was
complete in front of Aggie corner-
back Greg Williams for the six
points. Later in the quarter, the
Owls converted a fourth and 32
situation much to the amazement
of the A&M coaching staff.
A full game by both the offense
and defense would help the
Aggies tremendously this weeU
against SMU. With the Aggie^
tied for the SWC lead with a 3-1:
mark, the Ags can solidify thein
position as one of the top teams iri
the conference with a win over thq
Ponies.
And a win, even of one point,t
will satisfy A&M fans immensely!
along with even the most cold-j
hearted Aggie alumn.
But for six points, the Aggiei
could very well be either 2-5 of
7-0. Yet, when the team puts a frill
game together, the results coulcj
be awesome. Especially, shoulej
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defensive secondary that gave up
55 yards in the first half, or should
I say second quarter, give up 306 . J
in the second halfp - - ^ ^ ^ ' ^ — — — —
In the first quarter, the Aggies
gave up exactly 0 (zero, nothing,
zilch) yards passing. The Rice QB
had only attempted 4 passes with
no completions. Yet, by the end of
the game, he had completed 19 of
46 passes for 361 yards.
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