Monday, April 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 15
Varsity-alumni game turns
lock forward, backward
A
yle Field deserves more credit than it’s
iven. No longer is it dormant in the
iring. Now it does more than set the
age for a single game or season of
exas A&M football.
Fans present at the second varsity-
umnigame Saturday were shown what
as, is and will be Texas A&M football,
oachjackie Sherrill peered into the fall
'83, while former all-SWC quarterback
3d Hargett relived his successful years
an Aggie.
Welcome to Kvle Field, the Aggie foot-
ne machine.
After former yell leaders guided a
lodest crowd through the “Spirit of
ggieland” and former band members
layed the dust out of their instruments,
largett once again shouted the signals,
topped back and threw a touchdown
[tike.
It had happened before — in the late
Os.
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VJ “We were close in all of them except
te,” Hargett said of his 1967 SWC
lampionsnip season with the Aggies.
a I fhev could have gone either way. We
1 itbeat the last play of the game against
HU. Purdue had a great team that year,
idtheyjust beat us by four points. Flor-
aState beat us in a rainstorm.”
OfftoaO-4 start, something happened
pedaljthe Aggies that turned the entire sea-
maround. While in the locker room of
lie Field, Hargett recalled the big day
y ft
against Texas Tech.
“We made a couple of personnel
changes, but I don’t know that those were
that big a deal,” Hargett said. “We just
made two or three or four big plays and
won the ball game. We scored the last
play of the game. Bob Long made a great
pass catch to set that up. There were
about six of them (defenders) around,
and he was standing right in the middle
of them and somehow he came down
with it.
“We were just happy and proud to get
there (to the 1968 Cotton Bowl). I think
they’ve had some better teams here since
we were here, but they just never were
fortunate enough to win the game that
they had to. We were. We won the game
that we had to. We didn’t have that good
a record, but we were able to win the
conference that year.”
Kyle Field — in a manner of speaking
—- brought back Hargett’s past in the
same way it provided an opening
through which the ’83 Aggies could get a
glimpse of what might be.
But no time machine would be com
plete without the ability to show things
as they are today. Where are the alumni
now, for instance?
George Woodard, the Aggies’ bulky
star running back from the late 70s, is still
searching for a career in pro football.
“I’m still looking for that football
dream to come true,” Woodard said after
Thursday’s alumni practice. “I’ve been
working out and just trying to keep my
head together. When you do decide to
come back, it’s hard, because you’ve got
to go through the process of working out
all over again.”
Woodard’s dream of playing pro ball
almost came true this spring. He checked
in with the USFL’s Denver Gold and
made the team, he said. But a bad knee
kept him from passing the physical.
Kyle Field will be a time machine once
each spring, when the Aggies of the past
come to test the Aggies of the future and
tell a bit about themselves in the present.
aseball
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„ is single and Kevin Smith’s
1 smash down the third-base
They put together three
two walks and a wild pitch
core five runs and take a 6-0
linthe third inning. Third
iman Tony Metoyer hit a
te-run home run over the
foot sign in right field,
n the fourth, Texas A&M
red two more runs when
lor committed three errors
e[( I Buddy Haney stroked an
single to right field. The
icame back for three runs
Smith in the fifth, but Texas
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A&M increased its lead to 10-3
in the bottom of the inning on
two hits and a fielder’s choice
grounder by Edwards.
The Aggies picked up one
more run in the sixth on a sacri
fice fly by Metoyer to score Clint
Heard, who had walked.
Baylor starter Steve Smith
pitched a complete game, allow
ing four unearned runs as a re
sult of the five Bear errors.
In the second game, Aggie
starter Rick Luecken faced 13
batters in only two innings, giv
ing up five runs on six hits as the
Bears took a quick 5-1 lead. Cal
Wood’s two-run homer, the first
of his four hits in the game, gave
Baylor a 2-0 lead in the first in-
ning.
Texas A&M took up where
the Bears left off in the errors
department, committing two in
the second inning as Baylor
scored three runs on three hits
to move ahead 5-1.
From that point on, the Bears
did all the damage, as Baylor’s
Alan Koonce retired 14 straight
batters between Heard’s two-out
walk in the second inning and
Smith’s one-out triple in the
seventh.
Texas A&M used four pitch
ers, but none could stop the
Bears’ offense. Baylor, which
had 12 hits in the game, scored a
run in the fifth, another in the
seventh on Wood’s second home
run and five runs in the ninth to
nail the 12th conference loss on
the Aggies’ won-lost ledger.
Texas A&M, which has a 22-
16 overall record, plays the
Lamar Cardinals on Tuesday
night at 7:30 in Olsen Field. The
Aggies play the Rice Owls in
Houston this weekend, with a 3
p.m. single game set for Satur
day and a 1 p.m. double-header
scheduled for Sunday.
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