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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Friday, September 30,1983/The Battalion/Page 11 e the facilities oven| sriod. hargeisameansof l groundwater e options are surface: processing irrigation ore pumping it bad runawater source messes said the 0[ r — the water and in urce for the High of Colorado, Kam New Mexico, Oklak ling, Nebraska, So; 1 i — is being quidl) by increased irrigai rial and municipal warn and other witne | at unless some mean j lishing the aauifei more than 5 millionac High Plains willreven d farming or range! year 2020. John wagner ;eel rms in nited Press International [ AS Financial anal y° u can 8° alaead and toss your ticket book. lay expressed caution merger of LTV Coij bsidiary, Jones & Lai 'ittsburgh, with Repoi >f Cleveland, bull' s said they made then| e new company as LTV Steel lartered in Cleveland become the sect steel company in “n trading on LTV; ^ oma State. To win, the Aggies are going to have to throw the ball, - ° something they did equally poor against the Cowboys. It’s been seven years since Tech has opened conference play ay [ yy opened lo ^ tvvo straight victories. This could be the year they break that s level Tuesday * ^ oore s 8 an K of no-names can be rough on a team. Just ask wassusnended the Baylor'Bears. [ So when A&M coach Jackie Sherrill says the Aggies will face a tough test” in Lubbock, he means it. The last two games out West mf;i were both decided by one point. No, A&M didn’t lose both of them. hk 0nl y° ne - Aggies may begin, end SWCseason Saturday Lest you lose faith and chunk your football ticket book in the nearest dumpster, remember this important point. It’s the second season. A time for rebirth. A chance to redeem past sins. The Aggies open their Southwest Conference season Saturday. They might also end it. TO SAY SATURDAY’S game against Texas Tech is important is understatement of the biggest kind. The entire season rests on what the Aggies can do in a sold-out Jones Stadium, capacity 47,000. A win might put A&M back on the right track. A loss, and That’s the way these things go. One minute you’re a contender. Three hours later you’re an also-ran. Conference play has a way of making coaches nervous — a loss to the “wrong element” (pardon the Wattism) can end a team’s bowl chances quicker than schedul ing Georgia, Ohio State and USC all in a row. When you play in a conference against bullies like Texas, SMU and Arkansas, you can expect to lose one. Maybe a couple. Probably all three. A team like A&M can’t afford to lose to Texas Tech. Or Baylor. Or Rice. Those schools you have to beat, especially when you begin SWC competition with a 1-2 record, as have the Aggies. Losses to California and Oklahoma State have made things awfully tough for A&M. The Aggies need to win at least six of eight ipsny in ‘‘V’lUliy lUU^Il 1L/I .TVVA.1T1. A lie, /T.^t^lCa UCUVJ Id Will cll 1C S S tee | ] conference games to be considered for a bowl bid. Not impossible. But just about as close to it as you can get. / behind U.l is subject to approvi agencies and the both J&L and I I TECH COACH Jerry Moore says his players are Steel spokesman Di ^ unc ^ no " names - N° criticism intended. Those no-names whip- i Pittsburgh said hiset ^ P rev i° us ly‘ un keaten Baylor 26-11 last week, forcing six Bear ad not fullv studied turnovers an d giving up only 41 yards rushing Comparisons? A&M rushed 40 times for 49 yards against Okla- was suspended. Ref es showed a slight g; ysts said that was t( :d because the mei al announced Wedt •uld only benefit Ref s .holders. Under then I ms Republic stocll WHAT ALL THIS boils down to is winning. To stay alive in the luld get about $35 w face for post-season play, the Aggies have to win Saturday. And the r securities for each } next Saturday, and most of the Saturdays after. They can’t afford to hare which closedT i £25 jo At A&M’s pre-season press conference, quarterback John Mazur ■ther i&l and Rept ! sa ^ wou ld be “very disappointed” if the Aggies didn’t make it to n’parlv t7nn mill a ^ ow * g ame this year. jgj ^ So would a lot of other people, John. Get those ticket books n Scheer LTV’s stl : rea dy. The season may end before the schedule is finished, ■esident for corpoi u , said Wall Street g favorably to the ntf rough some brokei eported disfavor rger. .aid LTV Steel w itrate all the better and I W” , I er admitted the entirtp was in deep troub J0 ALLAS _ The Dallas Cow . >1 lorei^n com P etl ly s Thursday signed running ■ domestic recession■j l q Allen, a second-year >re worker layoffs*^ cut t 5j s summer by the iuston Oilers, to fill a roster Pot left open by an injury to ookie Chuck McSwain. Growing grumblings Aggies try to silence skeptics with win against Texas Tech by John P. Lopez Battalion Staff The grumblings are getting louder and the Texas A&M football team wants to quiet Aggie football skeptics soon — like Saturday when the Aggies travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech. The grumblings, in this case, are Aggie football fans and local media personnel asking anyone who cares to listen, “what hap pened to A&M?” In other words, talk around Aggieland is the same as it has been since the glory days of the mid ’70s. And the only thing Texas A&M can do to prove that things are different this year and the Aggies are a better team is chalk up a win against the Red Raiders Saturday. Easier said than done. Even though most fans will have to scan the game program to find out exactly who is on the field for the Red Raiders, the “no names”, as Texas Tech coach Jerry Moore calls his team, are a talented troupe. In their opening Southwest Conference game against Baylor last Saturday, the Red Raiders looked strong in their 26-11 romp over the Bears. It was Tech’s first conference-opening win since 1977 and Moore said the emotion al win will definitely help the Red Raiders this week. “It’s really great getting off on a winning note,” Moore said. “It’s always good to have an emotional day and win your first conference game.” But it wasn’t just emotion that won the game for the Raiders. Although Tim Smith, Jim Hart, Robert Lewis and Brad White aren’t exactly household names, they just might carry the Red Raiders to a successful season. Lewis, ajunior running back, is a perfect example of the consistent play the Red Raiders have turned in this season. Lewis’ longest run from scrim mage this year is 19 yards — good, but not exactly an all-America play — but he is averaging more than 6 yards a carry and 133 yards a game. That’s what coaches like to see. “It’s great to have a good hard runner like Lewis around, ” Moore said. “He slashes through the line and gives you everything he’s got on every play. “Jim (quarterback Hart) is another guy like that. You can al ways count on him. Some players are good only on game day, but Jim practices hard everyday and you can tell on Saturdays when he plays. I’m real pleased with the way this team has been playing together. ” But Moore said he is also aware of the way the Aggies haven ’[play ed together this season and “should be due a good game.” Moore’s biggest worry is handling Texas A&M’s size on both offen sive and defensive lines. “They are just tremendously big up front,” he said. “Texas A&M is without a doubt the best team we’ve faced all year. With the size and talent they have on their team, it’s going to take our best effort of the year if we want to win.” But, if the Aggies are the best team the Raiders have faced all year, why all the irate grumbling from Aggie partisans. “Naturally, fans always want to; see a team win,” Moore said. Former UH star signed by Houston USFL franchise United Press International HOUSTON — The Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League Thursday announced the signing of defen sive end MacLMitchell, a former University of Houston player and first round NFL pick, and three other players to contracts. Also signed were wide receiv er DeWayne Jeff, tight end De- ron Miller and offensive guard Scott Boucher. Mitchell, 6-8 and 260 sounds, played for Houston Tom 1971-1975 and holds the career sack record at 40. He was the first round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in 1975 and played there four years before going to the Cincinnati Bengals and the Denver Broncos for single seasons. Jeff played in college for Hawaii and in the pros with the Detroit Lions and Baltimore Colts. Miller, who played for Rice University, spent the 1983 training camp with the Los Angeles Raiders. Boucher play ed at Northeast Louisiana and then with the Denver Broncos in 1982, the Chicago Blitz of the USFL in 1983 and with the Houston Oilers briefly in 1983. GAMES ifyalo'te- MIDNIGHT MADNESS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT ll:00pm-l :00am DOUBLE TOKENS 8 For $ l m ! 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