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THE BATTALION Pag« 17
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
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earn spirit, attitude play
ital role in Ags’ fortunes
)en i n „ |Say Gary, what are you shooting for this
own and} 1 ?." 1 asked Aggie Quarterback Gary
e tobe l^’ ex P ect ing to hear TO or 12 touch
es,’! didn’t.
Is “Amn,” he said. Center David Bandy nod-
] pro^ (n agreement.
jv jQ' ubiak’s attitude reflects that of the whole
1 . The players know what they’re facing
iday in Southern Methodist University
aiucnasili |00ne j s going to win or lose the
ramscausf , It will be a team effort.
rsa ™ The SMU game is the most important
! of the year for us,” head coach Tom
m said.
w’d better believe the players know and
irstand that, too.
i the Texas A&M locker room after the
game, talk centered around the big show-
i this week between the Ags and Mus-
n
lire, there was talk of Kubiak and his six-
Idown performance, but every player
. >wthat Texas had beaten SMU, setting up
% feliowdown.
^ lie team is thinking “Cotton” all the way,
llher teams have.
ase ini i the past, the Aggies would be sitting in
the pasti (river’s seat for the crown and the trip to
women in is, but would end up being the laughing-
and 30,1 I of the conference.
i show b 1975 the Aggies entered the Arkansas
ythefei isporting a 10-0 record and had to knock
up halfi eRazorbacks for the title. They didn’t. In
cebutW early conference losses to Houston and
f the ibp Tech kept them away, though they en-
unablt;
ded the season as one of the top teams in the
nation.
The difference in this year’s team is the
attitude. Just ask anybody on the team. That
attitude, combined with the coaching and the
talent of the team, may take them to the title
that has eluded them for so many years.
I’m not saying the team is going to win the
title or even win any of its remaining games.
What I want to bring out is that if any team has
the right combination of what it takes to win
the conference, it’s this team.
“We re not looking ahead,” offensive guard
Kent Adams said. “We know what we have to
do. This game is the biggest game of the year
for us. But I guess that from now on they all
will be.
“We have to treat it like any other game. It’s
kind of hard not to look ahead, though. But we
all know that we can’t do that.”
Adams said, and others will agree, that none
of the players is on the field playing for himself.
“Nobody is worried about his individual
reputation,” he said. “We’re all team-
oriented.”
‘Team’ is the word most accurately describ
ing the 1981 Texas Aggies.
There’s a special togetherness on the team
that escapes definition, and this unity hasn’t
been seen in years. I think there are only a few
teams around with the same togetherness, and
they are all winners.
I think that I can safely say the 1981 Texas
Aggies are winners, on and off the field.
I also think the student body and the band
have a lot to do with the success and attitude of
this team.
Safety Jeff Farrar, commenting after drama
tic comeback win over Texas Tech earlier in
the season, said that the band plays a major
part in Aggie games.
The band members, he said, don’t realize
how important they are.
I remember before halftime in the Baylor
game when the Aggies were facing a fourth-
and-goal situation at the Baylor 1-yard line.
Wilson called a time out to make a decision
whether to go for three or seven points.
Watching from the pressbox, I was amazed
when I looked up and saw a wave of maroon
and white pointing toward the Baylor goal.
Just think what an important role the stu
dent body will play in Saturday’s game with
SMU. Perhaps summing it up better than any
thing else, Kubiak said: “It’ll be great to play at
home. The crowd always gets us fired up.“
hdgers, Lopes defeat Yanks, 9-2
wages on
omeback Kings take Series
cent of
Kr ctillnB United Press International
° YORK — It was the para-
P a ! e n !' of the 1981 World Series —
th full-ta
ent of
omen l
service
Lopes fouling up a grounder
should have been the final out
e game, yet the Los Angeles
gers remaining in firm con-
above
iopn
’s peafflit
behind
■ season
liere’s been a lot of talk about
rrors, but with all of them, we
went into tonight winning
: games to two, ” Lopes said
Inesday night while celebrat-
he Dodgers’ 9-2 thrashing of
'few York Yankees that gave
the championship, four
is to two.
opes committed six errors in
r-dana Series, setting or tying four
irtment ds for fielding futility by a
tsestim id baseman. He made
mly 3 pi negrounders more suspense-
1979 epan a Hitchcock movie.
(ut in the deciding game, he
id the tie-breaking run in a
optimist e-nm fifth inning and scored
i, Geoip i in a four-run sixth. He pro-
ormals d the perfect measure of a
that continually rose above its
ma Fean: irfections.
a, Alaliic ack in February, I spoke at a
er and I made a prediction
we would win,” said Lopes,
s team has had some good
says if s together but we never got
iot maW Mss ring. ”
use otT Ky have it now, thanks to five
by Pedro Guerrero, a key hit
ion Gey and a clutch single by
e Yeager. The trio will share
Series MVP Award,
felt all 25 of us should have
\i and not just three,” said Cey,
left for a pinch hitter in the
lafter suffering dizziness as an
effect of being struck in the
IbyaRich Gossage pitch Sun-
This team has withstood a lot
iticism during the year and
list glad we finally proved the
rts wrong. ”
ie victory completed one of
Host remarkable playoff odys-
in history, one that fittingly
ied one of the oddest of sea-
• Three weeks ago, the Dod-
trailed Houston 2-0 in a divi
sional miniseries bom of the mid
summer players’ strike. They re
bounded to win three straight.
Next came the National League
playoffs, where they fell behind
2-1 against the Expos and faced
the prospect of winning the final
two games in Montreal. They did
it.
Finally, it was the Yankees, who
promptly put the Dodgers just
where they wanted to be — be
hind. The Dodgers responded by
winning the next four games,
avenging the memory of 1978,
when the Yankees did the same to
them.
The loss hit the Yankees espe
cially hard. After all, their tradi
tion involves giving out embar
rassment, not suffering it. They
are supposed to perform heroics,
not fall victim to them.
“We didn’t play the first two
games out there like we played all
year according to the script,” said
Lemon. “We didn’t get the mid
dle pitching we got all year and we
left men on base when we had
opportunities. We’ve got to credit
the pitching of the Dodgers while
we re at it.”
Yankee owner George Stein-
brenner appeared to take the loss
the hardest of all, issuing a state
ment shortly after the game that
reflected anger at the collapse.
“I want to sincerely apologize to
the people of New York and to fans
of the New York Yankees every
where for the performance of the
New York Yankee team in the
World Series,” said Steinbrenner.
“I als6 want to assure you that we
will be at work immediately to
prepare for 1982.
“I want also to extend my con
gratulations to (club president)
Peter O’Malley and the Dodgers
organization — a fine team that
didn’t give up — and to my friend,
Tom Lasorda, who managed su
perb season, playoffs, and a bril
liant World Series.”
Steinbrenner may find particu
lar fault with Lemon’s decision to
pinch hit for starting pitcher Tom
my John with two out and two on
in the fourth inning with the score
tied 1-1.
Bobby Murcer batted for John
and sent a long liner to right for
the third out and reliever George
Frazier immediately gave up
three runs to become the first
pitcher ever to lose three games in
a best-of-seven Series.
Willie Randolph gave New York
a 1-0 lead in the third with his
second homer of the season. Sing
les by Dusty Baker, Rick Monday
and Yeager off John tied the score
in the top of the fourth.
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