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Texas A&M the/1 THER£3 The Battalion Sports Wednesday, October 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 urray named as aturday’s starter M I tiki. reshman quarterback Kevin iurray will start for Texas i&M Saturday in the home louthwest Conference open- r against Houston, coach ackie Sherrill has nnounced. Murray will replace former tarter John Mazur, who com- leted 20 of 33 passes for 243 ards and two touchdowns in lie Aggies’ opener against lalifornia. In the last two ames, however, the Aggies ave scored only one touch- own. Huskers’ stats say it all United Press International NEW YORK — It appears that the only thing the Nebraska football team has to fear is itself. Nebraska’s statistics are so overwhelming after five games that they make one wonder if some professional teams could pile them up against college competition. More to the point, they appa rently make the 42 coaches on the UPI ratings Board wonder, too, because for the second straight week they are unani mous in voting the Cornhuskers the No. 1 team in the country. Nebraska thus piled up a maximum 630 points in out distancing second-place Texas, followed by Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia. Rounding out the top 10 are Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Ohio State and Auburn. Now for the reasons why the coaches think no college team in the country could handle Neb raska: •Following Nebraska’s 63-7 triumph over Syracuse last Saturday, the Cornhuskers are averaging 56 points per game. 437 >They are averaging yards rushing per game. •They are averaging 618 tot al yards per game. With a little more than half the season left, college football experts are wondering if Neb raska will be the first unanimous national champion in the UPI ratings since Southern Califor nia in 1972. Nebraska goes for No. 6 next Saturday in its Big Eight opener against Oklahoma State with the odds-makers listing the Cor nhuskers as 24-point favorites. Coach Tom Osborne says Saturday’s game with the Cow boys could be a tough contest for the Huskers. The teams are the only Big Eight squads still un beaten. Oklahoma State, 4-0, is off to its best start since 1975. has completed passes for 142 Murray ight of 22 ards and two touchdowns bis year. His longest comple- on was a 38-yard touchdown ass to sophomore Jeff Nel son against Oklahoma State. “Kevin makes things hap pen,” Sherrill said Monday night in announcing his deci sion. “He came into the Texas Tech game and gave us some spark, just like he did for us against Oklahoma State.” The pros Cowboys rolling, but Landry says Dallas not yet ‘Super’ Ihisox’ experience ay beat the odds tologyis' ions,” Gi tors are ien theco tese seal ?s the ti than ii abortioi iughdni| rally are pregn; ’d abort ication tant thii imes sail renerallv arlier k icre are n it’s ts United Press International ALTIMORE — If in hand ping the American League |lavoffs you are tempted to con- ™ie experience to Baltimore, nember that some of Chica- |s horses know all about the iners’ circle. : Despite a 24-year absence film post-season competition, the White Sox offer Carlton k, Greg Luzinski, Tom iorek, Jerry Koosman, Aure- Rodriguez and Dick Tidrow Aorld Series veterans, heir experience could help set the savvy of a Baltimore ad that begins its record enth playoff series Wednes- with left-hander Scott Gregor, 18-7, opposing Chi- righty LaMarr Hoyt, 24-10. matchup of two of the A.L.’s st relentless throwers of stlikes. W -™The National Weather Ser- e is predicting considerable Budiness with a 40 percent chance of rain and temperatures iiithe 80s over a virtually sold- It Memorial Stadium. [Experience is a benefit. I uld never underestimate it,” |d Chicago Manager Tony ussa. “But we have guys with erience. We hadn’t been in a nnant race in a long time and t didn’t seem to bother us. had never clinched early and didn’t seem to bother us. I ink we’ll be ready to play and Bvbe in six years it will be the lite Sox with all the playoff aerience.” Most baseball fans can still all Fisk dancing down the it base line in Game Six of the 75 World Series, using body glish to steer his 12th-inning, tie-winning home run. Now an MVP candidate after a .281 season that included 26 home runs, Fisk becomes even more important as a handler of a playoff untested rotation of Hoyt, Floyd Bannister and Richard Dotson. Like Fisk, Koosman was part of a storybook moment in World Series competition. It was Koos man who pitched the fifth and final game of the 1969 World Series, defeating the Orioles and handing the World Series title to the Miracle New York Mets. Luzinski was a member of the only Philadelphia Phillies’ team to win a world championship, in 1980. By then, however, the slugger was competing for play ing time with Lonnie Smith, a circumstance that eventually made him available to the White Sox. This year he was the domi nant DH in the league, hitting 32 homers and driving in 95 runs. Even with such individuals, however, the White Sox may still face a challenge in handling a team with many holdovers from the 1979 squad that lost the World Series to Pittsburgh in seven games. Catcher Rick Dempsey, who must help contain a White Sox squad that stole nearly three times as many bases as the Orioles, remembers ’79 and commented on the value of post season experience. “In a short series experience is overrated unless you play a lot of low scoring games and you have to show mental toughness,” said Dempsey. “But when you’ve been there you know how to look at it. United Press International DALLAS — The Dallas Cow boys haven’t lost a game all year and look up to find that their next opponent just gave up the most points ever scored in the first two quarters of a National Football League game. “I hate games like this,” Cow boys’ coach Tom Landry said Tuesday. “This is a very unusual football game.” Tampa Bay, which has never beaten the Cowboys and which is trying to battle back from an embarassing performance against Green Bay last Sunday, will come to Texas Stadium next weekend. Landry faces the task of con vincing his players that the Bucs are capable of playing the kind ‘We just haven’t made the plays at the beginning of the game that we should. Maybe that is a characteristic of this team. I know you cannot be continual ly consistent. We’ve been fortunate to come from behind. ’— Cowboys’ coach Tom Landry on Dallas’ early season success. of defense they usually do — not the kind that brought about a 55-14 loss to the Packers. “Why Tampa Bay ended up playing the way they did, I don’t really know,” the Cowboys coach said. “You have to write those games off. “Their defense is the strong part of their football team. They had some injuries in the secon dary and the kind of changes they had to make can hurt when you play a team like Green Bay. “But football players can have their pride hurt. And if you underestimate them you will make a big mistake.” Just how will his players react? “Obviously the ones that have not been around long enough will react poorly,” he said. “They won’t see how a team can give up that many points. But we’ve seen it happen so many times. “You never saw a team play as bad as Green Bay did against New York (in a Monday night loss to the Giants the week be fore the Tampa Bay game). But they seemed to put 49 points on the board (in the first half) against a top defensive team. You never know whafs going to happen in the league.” Landry said his club’s 37-24 win over Minnesota last week was, “the best team game we’ve had this year.” Nevertheless, Dallas had to rally from a 14-point deficit. The Cowboys have trailed in all five of their games this year and have had to come from at least 10 points behind three times. “We just haven’t made the plays at the beginning of the game that we should,” Landry said. “Maybe that is a character istic of this team.” Landry said. “I know you cannot be con tinually consistent. We’ve been fortunate to come from be hind.” Landry said he was not opti mistic that wide receiver Tony Hill would return this week since Hill is still bothered by a sprained foot. Jets’ face Gastineau, NY assault United Press International NEW YORK — All-Pro de fensive end Mark Gastineau arid rookie quarterback Ken O’Brien of the New York Jets Tuesday were charged with third degree assault, a misdemeanor, ordered to appear at a hearing on Nov. 1 at Criminal Court in Manhattan. Gastineau and O’Brien were charged with assaulting a patron during a brawl at the Studio 54 disco in Manhattan last week. Both players denied the charges and said they actually had attempted to break up a fight. Gastineau and O’Brien, fresh from a 34-10 rout of the Buffalo Bills Monday night, slipped into a back door of a Manhattan police station to be booked on the assault charges. They arrived at the Midtown North Precinct about 10:45 a.m and drove past reporters and fans and into an alleyway to a rear building where they en tered the stationhouse through a rear door. Less than an hour later, they emerged and made a brief appearance with Gastineau’s attorney, Peter Morrison. Gas- O’Brien charges tineau refused to discuss the If the charges were bothering Gastineau, it was not reflected in his performance Monday night. ATTENTION CORPS Do you need your senior boots before Christmas? If so, Guaranteed delivery if you order before October 5th. Bring your deposit now. VICTORS II JUST BOOTS 3601 TX Ave. 846-4114 Now Better Than Ever. 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