Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Tuesday, August 30, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13
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THE SCOREBOARD CLOCK at University of California’s
Memorial Stadium had four ticks showing when Stanford kick
er Mark Harmon kicked off to the Golden Bears — a kickoff
that should have ended the 1982 season as inconspicuously as it
began.
Harmon had just booted a 35-yard field goal to give the
Cardinal a 20-19 lead, and only a miracle play could keep him
from being the hero of the day.
Enter one miracle.
Harmon’s squib kick bounced to the Cal 45-yard line, and
“The Play” — a mish-mashy, five-lateral, once-in-a-century
runback — began.
“The Play” went Moen to Rodgers to Garner to Rodgers to
Moen, for those scoring at home. And when it was over, officials
ruled that Moen (Kevin, that is) — the original fielder of the
kick who also caught the fifth lateral — had scored. In doing so,
Moen danced politely through the Stanford band (the band
members had run onto the field thinking the game was over)
and then impolitely knocked over a trombone player in the end
zone.
It took John McKay, coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and former coach at Cal’s Pac-10 rival USC, to find the real
culprit in this escapade.
“I always said the Stanford band couldn’t play defense,”
McKay joked.
CALIFORNIA COACH JOE Kapp gets another chance to
be involved in kickoff shenanigans this Saturday, when he
brings the Golden Bears into Kyle Field to meet the Texas
Aggies.
This is a good one. In one corner, you have the Cal kickoff
return team, captained by “The Play” veteran Richard Rodgers.
In the other corner, you have the Aggies’ Twelfth Man kickoff
team, a non-scholarship bunch recruited from the student body
to cover kickoffs at home games.
Stay tuned. This could be the wildest runback in college
football history. No telling how many laterals the Golden Bears
might try. You can imagine Captain Rodgers telling his team
mates to let all 1 1 players touch the ball. You can also imagine
them doing so, before some chemistryjunior from North Zulch
makes the tackle. A sort of major-college keep away, if you will.
See KAPP page 15
to continue volleyball success
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
It seems only natural that Ter
ry Condon is from California.
With blond, curly hair, blue
eyes and an easygoing personal
ity, Condon reminds one of a
typical West Coast beach girl.
And there’s another feature
of the Los Angeles native that
reminds sports fans of Califor
nia — her achievements in vol
leyball. Volleyball is one of Cali
fornia’s most popular sports.
Condon played on two na
tional champion volleyball
teams at UCLA in the late 70’s.
For the past 15 years, Con
don has competed in the United
States Volleyball Association,
where she’s been a nine-time
All-American and two-time
MVP.
This year, Condon was desig
nated an ‘All-Time Great’ by the
directors of the Association. The
award means she’ll be listed in
the USVBA Hall of Fame as one
of the greatest players in the his
tory of American volleyball.
Only about 30 people have
been awarded this distinction to
date.
Most volleyball fans know that
the best competition is in Cali
fornia, and Condon herself said
“eight of the best ten teams in
the country are from Cali
fornia.”
So how did Condon, coach of
the Texas A&M women’s vol
leyball team, make her way to
the football-dominated Lone
Star State?
“A friend of mine called and
said A&M was looking for a
coach,” Condon said. “And I
thought I’d take a look. So I
came out here.”
“At first,” Condon said, “I
didn’t have the intention of tak
ing the job, but I got to the
school and it sold itself. When I
left here, I wanted the job.”
“I feel at home here,” Condon
said. “The people are friendly.”
As coach here for the past
Coach Terry Condon
three years, Condon has com
piled a 96-66 record, including a
32-13 performance last season.
Texas A&M’s mark in last sea
son’s SWC play was 8-2, with los
ses only to tough Texas and
Houston teams. That record
earned her the distinction of
SWC Coach of the Year, along
with University of Texas coach
Mick Haley.
But Condon’s road to success
hasn’t been easy, especially in a
state like Texas.
She had a lot of rebuilding to
do. And most of her recruiting
had to be done out-of-state.
Condon said the reason for
this was because volleyball is
played year-round in several
areas of the country, but not in
Texas. The University Inters
cholastic League prohibits high
schools from playing volleyball
year-round, or conducting vol
leyball camps, and Condon said
these rules hurt the players
themselves and restrict the re
cruiting selection from this state.
“I have a girl from Illinois
who’s an All-American candi
date in her freshman year,”
Condon said. “And then I have a
girl from Texas who may be a
candidate her senior year, but
she’s about four years away due
to lack of playing experience.”
Despite the lack ot local ta
lent, Condon slowly built a tigam
— even with the added burpen
of cross-country recruiting,
As a coach, Condon said One
of*her first goals was to trav<£l to
more tournaments to get s<3me
recognition.
And while Texas A&M was
once a doormat in volleyball,
they’re now a respected grqfip.
qualifying for last season’s
NCAA playoffs and finishing
15th.
This year’s group consists
solely of her own recruits. The
problem now, Condon said; is
the team’s lack of experience.
Condon is planning to sfart
three freshmen — Angi Smjth,
Chris Zogata and Margaret
Spence.
“We could be good,” Concjon
said. “I really can’t tell because I
haven’t seen them (the fresh
men) play under pressure.” ^
As far as SWC" play is con
cerned, Condon said, “It’s go£ng
to be between us, Houston grid
Rice for second place.”
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HOUSTON — Houston Oil
ers coach Ed Biles said he would
not predict how many games, or
even when, the team should win
this season, but that the team’s
goal is to make the playoffs.
The Oilers have not won a
game since last September, but
Biles said at a news conference
Monday they are rebuilding and
may need a few more years to
accomplish through the collegi
ate draft what their first regular
season rivals, the Green Bay
Packers, did.
“The wins will take care of
themselves. It’s just a matter of
time. This team is improving,”
he said.
He said the team’s goal was to
make the playoffs, something it
has not done in two previous
seasons with Biles as head coach.
“One of the most important
things I’ve got to do in the near
future,” Biles said, “is keep the
team playing with the same in
tensity and the same drive.”
team reminds him of the Pack
ers several years ago.
The Packers made the play
offs last season after many dry
seasons following the end of the
Vince Lombardi era.
“It’s taken them five, six or
seven years to capture talent to
get where they are,” he said.
But the Oilers in May did not
draft the same quality for its de
fense. That factor plus attrition
due to the legal problems of the
secondary has caused great con
cern among Oilers officials wor
ried about how the team will
slow down an offense of the
quality of the Packers.
During an 0-4 preseason, the
Oilers defense made only five
quarterback sacks. As a unit, the
team was riddled for 362 yards a
game — 245 passing. Lineman
and linebackers in particular
have been disappointing to
coaches.
Biles said the improved con
ditioning of early-season con
tract holdouts Jesse Baker and
Malcolm Taylor will improve
the sack figure.
Previous Oilers coach Bum
Phillips traded for talent and
pushed the team to within one
step of the Super Bowl two con
secutive years, but the philosphy
of the Oilers now is to hoard
draft choices and do no trading.
“We are doing the right
thing. All you have to do is look
at the offensive line to see that
what we are doing is right. With
one draft we’ve taken a weak
point and developed it into a
strong point,” he said.
This preseason, the Oilers
offensive line manned by
rookies Harvey Salem and
Bruce Matthews, and secqud-
year pro Mike Murjchak, *has
established itself as the pride of
the ballclub. That line jhas
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Biles said a few names on the
cut list would “shock” the team.
The Oilers submitted the
names of 10 players waived or
placed on their injured-reserve
list just before 4 p.m. CDT Mon
day, but withheld announcing
those names until Tuesday
afternoon.
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