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ugs its ;yond to lose a year of sun bility. 'rimming the number j •s allowed to be playeds ■tball, baseball, volleylnl occer. .educing the amouni i >1 year time spent oatemi golf and moving partidp in those sports to the si months. rohibiting students tit ilingacoursetomissadt! t course in order to panic- in a UIL-sponsored ev>r dding no new athlti -ams to U1L compeis ve years and studyingik oility of eliminating sot ng sports programs. orbidding schools to unnecessary sportseqti •nalizing coaches oroip on sponsors who wili e UIL rules. Texas A8cM Battalion Sports Thursday, September 29,1983/The Battalion/Page 11 ts Good ol’ boy Aggie linebacker Berry just playing for fun cial losses. ’s ironic that one com down an airliner and : world turned upic . One man is shoe® a whole industry andr seems to give a damn, 1 ' said. ntinental since Tuts® een flying to 25 oftht it once served, ruimf tf its previous 508 Oigh esman Bruce Hicks said one flight was 68 peter, fuesday, but most" less full. by John P. larpez Battalion Staff Greg Berry is an unlikely hero for the Texas A&M defense. He doesn’t have a familiar name like University of Texas linebacker Jeff Leiding, he doesn’t have the respect of his peers like Aggie linebacker Billy Cannon and he doesn’t have raw athletic ability and speed like TCU’s Ron Zell Brewer. “He definitely doesn’t have speed,” his coach, R. C. Slocum says. But Berry has something Leiding, Cannon and Brewer don’t have — 28 tackles in three games, for instance. But, more important, Berry has something coaches don’t teach and few ma jor-college players possess. “He’s got a lot of desire,” Slo cum says of the Abilene native. “He’s just a tough guy that al ways gives you everything he’s got. He’s the kind of player you love to have on your team be cause even though there are more talented guys around, Greg’s a real hard-nosed player.” To say the least. Berry has the reputation among Texas A&M football observers as a Li’l Abner in a world of swanky athletic dormi tories and plush locker rooms. Perhaps Berry was born 25 years too late. He’d just as soon practice in Junction under for mer Texas A&M coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and play on natu ral turf so he can get good and dirty. He dips snuff, nibbles on toothpicks and wears baseball caps with construction company emblems. Berry’s just a good of boy that has been playing football since he was 9 years old and has loved every second of it. “For as long as I can remem ber I’ve loved the game of foot ball,” Berry says. “I love being out there on the field. I’m not out here looking to be a pro I just like to play the game.” And even though Texas A&M has lost two of its first three games this season, Berry has played the game well. So well, in fact, that at the pace Ber ry’s going, all-SWC honors are well within his reach. But Berry has other things on his mind, like defeating Texas Tech in the Aggies’ SWC opener in Lubbock Saturday. “I’d rather us go to a bowl game than get individual hon ors,” he says. “This is a big game for us because we can’t afford to lose many more and expect to go to a bowl. And, coming from Abilene, I’ll have a lot of friends there. “Getting publicity really isn’t that important for me. And if I do get any publicity I hope it doesn’t affect me because I real ly don’t think I’ve been playing all that well. I owe all my tackles to our defensive linemen. They’ve been opening every thing up for me.” Berry said another reason he’s been having a good year is because of Texas A&M’s new 3- 4 defensive alignment. “It fits our linebackers per fectly,” he said. “And I like it because I’m so slow and it gives me a chance to get right in the middle of everything. “The outside people are fast so they force things inside. That lets me make a lot of tackles.” And tackling people is what Berry loves to do. Aggie linebacker Greg Berry is a ‘tough guy who gives everything staff photo by Dean Saito he’s got,’ according to Texas A&M linebacker coach R.C. Slocum. Utah Jazz keeps five for camp Offensive problems have Holtz, Wacker bothered ie International Asstt of Machinists and Acn Workers has beenonstrl st Continental since k ell before the bankrup: as not been meeting puli. ,h angry flight attend! >ilots. irged >use Homa IndependentSclti ct President Cesar Sali® intendent EluterioCliS Jr., Principal Estellafr Canales, former to >er Felix Vera Jr., leaf 10 Canales Ybarra ?r aides CayetanoTreiis Joy Flores. .asically, we’re looking is an embezzlement t) : the defendants ttf ince provided the sd® :t under the Child Niff Vet of 1966,’’ said) , Assistant U.S. attonip nsville. e indictments, retunff uesday, charge that a® y between the defends the delivery of fourtf 11 meat valued at $192d Is of stew meat w- and ground meat, cite* , rice, tomato paste* : utensils and paper pis I at $298 to the rand Vera, who was tliet 1 board member. United Press International LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Af ter three football games, the only difference in Arkansas and Texas Christian appears to be the teams’records. Both have in experience problems on defense and in the offensive line that have hampered their perform ance. Both head coaches — Lou Holtz of 2-1 Arkansas and Jim Wacker of 0-2-1 TCU — told Arkansas media Wednesday that their ground attacks have suffered so far in 1983. The schools meet Saturday at 11:35 a.m. in a regionally televised game (CBS-TV) in Fort Worth. “We’ve been throwing the ball pretty well,” Wacker said from Fort Worth by telephone. “The problems we are having revolve around the running game. We have not been very physical in the offensive line.” Holtz said he was more en couraged about the offensive line’s performance after review ing films than he was in the im mediate aftermath of Saturday’s 13-10 loss to Mississippi. “The offense was so deceiv ing,” Holtz said. “We have eight or nine players play well and one or two who don’t on each play, But it’s not like it’s a complete breakdown.” and the result is the same as if all 11 played badly — second and nine. You won’t see any results until you get 11 (that play well). Holtz said the line play will improve as the year goes on if the players don’t lose confidence and start to worry. He predicted an excellent Razorback offen sive line for 1984. “We’ve got an awful lot of good young offen sive linemen,” he said. “I am not down on our offensive line. I be lieve in them.” Wacker praised the Arkansas coaching staff at length, citing the numerous defensive looks and good preparation shown by the Razorbacks. Holtz dis agreed. “That’s garbage,” he said. “They’re sitting down there so excited about playing the Uni versity of Arkansas, it’s amazing.” Holtz said all he wanted this week was “a game ball”, mean ing an Arkansas victory. Wacker said he wished Arkansas had beaten Ole Miss. “We play Ole Miss later, so that would have made our chances better. Obviously Arkansas was counting on winning its first four games going into the Texas game (Oct. 15). We’re not going to catch them sleeping Saturday now.” The TGU line, on both sides of the ball, is not big, experi enced or strong, Wacker said. The Frog coach said defen sive end Ron Zell Brewer and cornerback John Thomas were likely to miss the Arkansas game with injuries. He also praised the play of linebackers Kyle Clifton and Gary Spann. “We’re getting great play out of our linebackers and secon dary,” he said. “The line is giv ing great effort but they are very young.” He said the Frog offensive line would need “great concen tration and intensity” against the multiple Razorback defenses, “or we’ll be in trouble.” United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have invited five rookies and free agents, includ ing first-round draft pick Thurl Bailey of 1983 NCAA champion North Carolina State, to attend the dub’s veterans camp. The Jazz cut 11 other players Wednesday at the end of their rookie-free agent camp. The players invited back were Bailey, No. 3 draft pick Bob Hansen of Iowa, fourth-round pick Doug Arnold of TCU, and free agents Tom Boswell and U.S. Reed. “This was a good, physical camp,” said Jazz coach Frank Layden. “We had planned to keep only four players, but we ended up inviting five back for the veterans camp. The players cut: free agents Zam Fredrick, Ralph McPher son, Sam Smith and Jay Triano, and rookies Matt Clark of Okla homa State, Fred Gilliam of Clemson, Gerald Kazanowski of Victoria (B.C.) College, Terry Lewis of Mississippi State, Mike McCombs of Santa Fe College, Odell Mosteller of Auburn and Ron Webb of Oklahoma Christian. The veterans camp begins Friday and runs through Oct. 6 when the Jazz play their first pre-season game, at Seattle. The 6-foot-11 Bailey had signed a long-term contract with the Jazz on Sept. 23. Layden said the rookie power forward- center will give Utah “needed rebounds and scoring, and he’s also an excellent shot blocker.” Bailey led N.C. State to this year’s national collegiate title, averaging a team-high 16.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. He also has an excellent outside shot, hitting 10 of 15 3- point attempts for the Wolf Pack. “I thought I was in great shape when I came here,” said Bailey. “But the altitude really took it out of me. The 6-7 Boswell played five years in the NBA before being cut by the Jazz at the end of the 1979-80 season. He was later given another chance by Layden, if the forward would spend the 1982-83 season in the Continental Basketball League. He averaged 14.7 points and nine rebounds per game for the Billings, Mont., team, Reed was drafted by Kansas City in the summer of 1981, out of Arkansas. He was cut by the Kings and spent the next season in the CBA at Billings. Reed was injured in a tryout camp last year and spent the winter re cuperating. The 6-8 Arnold averaged 15.6 points and 9.3 rebounds for TCU last year, and the 6-6 Han sen 15.2 points and 5.4 re bounds for Iowa. Olympia winner misses ceremony AGGIELAND =AWARDS $21! Dffer Good Only At (| YORTHGATE | UNIVERSITY DH| >H. 260-9060 I )OD THROUGH |! OCT. 13,1983 |J ummmJ' ■ mmm*\ $2<1! )ffer Good OnlyAl I JORTHGATE I JNIVERSITY ON 'H. 260-9060 OOD THROUGH l| OCT. 13,1983 ■ mmm*' United Press International HOUSTON — Track star Carl Lewis, selected as the 1984 recipient of the Olympia Award, failed Wednesday to show up for the award ceremony. “We don’t know what hap pened to him,” said Tom Tellez, Lewis’ track coach at the Univer sity of Houston. “But he was very much aware of the signifi cance of the award.” Lewis, 23, the winner of three gold medals in the recent Track and Field World Champion ships in Helsinki, hopes to com pete in four events in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles — including the 100 and 200 meter dashes, the longjump and 4x100 relay. He could become the first person to win four track related gold medals since Jesse Owens won four in the 1936 Olympics. The Olympia Award, pre sented by the Southland Corp. and sanctioned by the U.S. Olympic Committee, recognizes the achievements of athletes in 31 Olympic sports. Recent win ners include Mary Decker, Greg Louganis, Tracy Caulkins, Ralph Sampson, Evelyn Ashfor and Phil Mahre. It is voted on by a panel of former world and Olympic greats. The award is a two-handled, clay vase, similar to the ones given to amateur athletes 2,500 years ago in Greece. “Something might have hap pened to Carl, we don’t know,” said Southland spokesman Don Smith. “But in the brief history of the Olympia Award, this is the first time an athlete has failed to appear to accept the award. I’m sure there is a reason for it.” ENGRAVING Trophies • Plaques • Ribbons • Badges Plastic Signs & Nameplates *846-2376 SKAGGS CENTER SPECIAL OF THE DAY ALL YOU CAJV EAT FARM RAISED CATFISH OR CHICKEN FRIED STEAK ONLY *5.95 Also, Plate Lunch Specials! 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