Texas A&M
Battalion Sports
October 15,1982 Page 17
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for Coach Jackie Sherrill. In this re
turn against Houston, Cannon went 46
photo by C. Michel Chang
yards, but the gain was reduced to
24 yards when the Aggies were called
for a clipping penalty. Texas A&M
faces Baylor Saturday in Kyle Field at 2
p.m. The Aggies are 2-3 on the season.
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Mysterious Baylor, A&M
ready to battle Saturday
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
From week to week, the
Baylor Bears have been a Dr.
Jekyll-Mr. Hyde brand of foot
ball team.
They’ve been something akin
to a dictionary definition of the
word “unpredictable” through
their first five games. In fact, the
fluctuation in their perform
ance has been downright
radical.
Those hard-to-figure Bears
will face the mysterious Texas
Aggies Saturday in Kyle Field at
2 p.m.
From the evidence presented
after the Bears’ two victories,,
two losses and one tie, it’s safe to
say they can be exceptional dur
ing one half of a game, but can
turn around and be more than
gracious to their opponents dur
ing the second half.
And the Aggies, themselves a
mystery during their two victor
ies and three defeats, have
allowed mistakes and inconsis
tent defense to leave them tied
for last place with TCU in the
Southwest Conference. Texas
A&M lost to the Houston
Cougars 24-20 last weekend.
The Bears, who could easily
be undefeated at this point, are
still searching for an antidote to
their double-identity blues.
Baylor started its season with
a narrow 21-17 victory over
North Texas State, using quar
terback Mike Brannan’s run
ning and passing to score three
first-half touchdowns. But when
the Bears’ offense froze into a
block of ice in the second half,
North Texas State nearly came
away victorious.
It took a Charles Benson-
Keith Walters fourth-down sack
of NTSU quarterback Rusty Hill
at the Baylor 26-yard line to sal
vage the game for the Bears and
Coach Grant Teaff.
Example No. 2: Baylor could
have won its second game of the
season, but instead, the Bears
lost 21-14 to Ohio State in Col
umbus, Ohio. In front of 88,622
fans, Baylor allowed the Buck
eyes to take a 14-0 lead, but came
back to tie them late in the third
quarter.
After Buckeye quarterback
Mike Tomczak scored on a 1-
yard run four minutes into the
final quarter, the Bears had a
chance to score with 4:34 left in
the game. But Brannan threw a
pass straight into the hands of
OSU linebacker Glen Cobb, and
the Bears left Columbus with a
1-1 record.
In a 24-23 triumph over
Texas Tech, the Bears had to
dodge a last-minute comeback
by the Red Raiders. Tech quar
terback Jim Hart drove his team
downfield 65 yards, topping the
drive off with a 14-yard scoring
run with 43 seconds left.
With the Bears ahead by a
point, Red Raider coach Jerry
Moore gambled on a two-point
conversion attempt, but Hart’s
pass was swatted down in the
end zone.
And to recap their last two
games, the Bears blew an early
21-0 lead over Houston, settling
for a 21-21 tie. In last week’s
game, Baylor surprised every
one by taking a 13-0 lead over
the No. 6-ranked SMU Mus
tangs. But they forgot how to
play defense during the third
quarter and wound up losing
the game 22-19 as Mustang
quarterback Lance Mcllhenny
threw three touchdown passes.
Baylor is just 13 points awav
from a 5-0 season and five points
from a 3-0 conference record.
Instead, the Bears are 2-2-1
overall and 1-1-1 in the SWC.
On the other hand, the
Aggies are 38 points away from
an undfeated season and 15
points away from a 2-0 confer
ence record.
Teaff says the Bears should
have a better record entering
Saturday’s game with Texas
A&M. But he knows Coach Jack
ie Sherrill and the Aggies have
experienced similar problems.
“For us to win against the
Aggies, it’ll take us not being as
up-and-down as we’ve been*”
Teaff said Thursday in a long
distance telephone interview. “I
think both clubs have experi
enced some of the same frustra
tions in losing close games.”
Yes, the Aggies have lost close
games during the last two weeks
to Texas Tech and Houston.
And yes, the Aggies have en
dured die same self-destruction
as the Bears, losing a 8-0 half-
See AGGIES page 19
Mangrum fits QB role well
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
David Mangrum is in a sticky
situation.
Until two weeks ago, he’d
spent his final year at Baylor
picking up splinters on the
bench as the second-string quar
terback behind Mike Brannan.
Brannan pulled a hamstring
muscle against Houston, howev
er, which paved the way for
Mangrum to inherit the starting
role in last week’s game with
SMU.
Mangrum doesn’t want the
injury to keep Brannan out of
action for long, but Mangrum
said he’s grown accustomed to
being the star of the show and
isn’t quite ready to exit stage
right.
“I feel that as long as I keep
improving and leading the
team, I have a good chance of
impressing the coaches into
thinking that I can be the star
ter,” he said Wednesday in a
long-distance interview. “I think
I have a pretty good shot at it.”
Baylor head coach Grant
Teaff also said Mangrum did a
good job in relief of Brannan.
“I felt Mangrum did a good
job and that he’ll be better from
having that experience against
SMU,” Teaff said.
The competition between
Mangrum and Brannan for the
starting spot isn’t tooth and nail.
Mangrum said, but is construc
tive and should prove to be be
neficial for the team.
“There isn't anv resentment
between Mike and me, but we
both want to play,” he said. "We
don’t to fight or anything like
that, but we’re two placet s who
both want to play the same posi
tion. We just want what’s best f or
See MANGRUM page 18