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Former UT kicker Allegre fires up Colts
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“I don’t want to end up on
Boot Hill.” — Raul Allegre, re
ferring to mythical “graveyard”
of previous Baltimore kickers
who failed to last.
United Press International
BALTIMORE — He is a civil
engineer, has worked as a trans
lator and learned about football
somewhere in the open spaces of
Montana.
But it is Raul Allegre’s en
dearing knack for kicking field
goals that has roused the imagi
nation of long-suffering Balti
more Colts’ fans unlike anyone
since the legend-filled days of
Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore
and John Unitas.
But mention the enthusiastic
howls of “Rah-ool, Rah-ool” that
spilled from the upper deck af
ter the rookie from Torreon,
Mexico, kicked his 10th field
goal in 11 tries to lift the Colts to
an overtime victory over the
Chicago Bears Sept. 25 and the
answer is something about
“Boot Hill.”
(Allegre added 10 points on
two more field goals and four
Colts’ kicker Raul Allegre
staying alive in the NFL
conversions without a miss on
Oct. 2 in Baltimore’s 34-31 over
the Bengals at Cincinnati).
“Boot Hill” is a mythological
burial ground — the creation of
a local writer — for the less-
than-successful kickers of the
Colts’ past.
Set deep in the woods, just
wide to the right of some prac
tice goalposts, rest the soles of
Dan Miller, Toni Linhart, Mike
Wood and six others off whose
feet had blown field goals and
extra points in the last 20 years.
“I know that kickers haven’t
lasted too long around here. I
heard that the first week I was
here,” Allegre said. “So, during
the week I’m just thinking to my
self, I hope I play well this week
so I last another week. And then
another week. I don’t want to
end up on Boot Hill.”
Allegre connected on his first
nine field goal tries this season
before missing a 46-yarder with
the score tied and three seconds
left on the clock against the
Bears.
Allegre kicked some dirt,
then returned to the solitude of
the Colts’ bench to pray.
Deeply religious, Allegre says
prayer helps him wash mistakes
from memory and improves his
concentration.
So when Colts’ defensive line
coach Gunther Cunningham
touched his shoulder pads and
said, “Good guys get a second
chance, Raul,” the 24-year-old
Allegre just nodded.
“I thought that if I was going
to have another chance to make
it, it would be good,” he said. “I
really don’t get too down on my
self. The madder you get at
yourself, the quicker your con
centration goes.”
The noise from the crowd
told him the Colts’ had the ball,
and with just minutes gone in
overtime, were driving deep in
Chicago territory.
“Like always, I prayed. I said,
‘If You will let one go through,
please let it be this one. Whatev
er happens, I will accept Your
decision.”
Baltimore Coach Frank Kush
summoned Allegre on third
down — the ball resting in the
middle of the field —just 17
yards from victory.
Allegre’s 33-yard field goal
attempt rocketed through the
uprights, giving last year’s win
less Colts their second victory in
four games. The three points
also tied Allegre for the Amer
ican Football Conference scor
ing lead.
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Boot Hill seemed very far
away, indeed.
To understand Raul Allegre
is to know that he cradled his
first football while in high
school, and that he really should
be in Buffalo.
A soccer player in Torreon,
Allegre played his first Amer
ican football as a high school ex
change student in Shinton,
Wash. He later went on to the
University of Montana but
transferee! and became a Texas
Longhorn after his sophomore
year.
Playing before crowds of
80,000, Allegre hit 60 percent of
his collegiate field goals — 79
percent from 40 yards and in —
and missed but two extra points
in two seasons. He was ignored,
however, in both the USFL and
NFL drafts.
Allegre caught on with the
Dallas Cowboys as a free agent,
impressing former professional
kicker and Dallas coach Ben
Agajanian with his attitude and
his accuracy.
But in Rafael Septien, the
Cowboys had an all-pro kicker
who was too proven to waive.
Allegre was cut just days before
the season opener.
“Raul is the finest young kick
er I’ve ever had,” Agajanian said
this summer. “He is intelligent
and hard-working. He improves
week after week.”
Hopeful they could capitalize
on the negotiating rights to
Allegre, the Cowboys’ Gil
Brandt invited the Buffalo Bills,
who were shopping for a kicker,
to Dallas to see the Mexican
rookie kick.
Special teams coach Mike
Westhoff flew to Dallas and
worked out a deal. The Cowboys
dealt Raul Allegre to the Colts
for a ninth-round draft pick and
an If.
If the Colts’ were not satisfied
with Allegre, they had three
weeks to re-claim their draft
pick and cut the young kicker.
Said Colts’ General Manager
Ernie Accorsi last week after
Allegre had kicked seven
straight field goals, “Guess
what? We’re going to keep him.”
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Sports Roundup
Volleyball team plays tonight
The Texas A&M volleyball team hosts the University of
Houston tonight in G. Rollie White Colliseum at 7:30. Coach
Terry Condon said she is expecting a close game tonight.
“The teams are pretty even so the game should be good,’'
she said.
Texas A&M has a 9-11 record and UH has a 9-4 record.
Golf team to play in LSU Invitational
The men’s golf team will travel to Baton Rouge, La. today
to play in the LSU National Invitational which runs through
Friday. Last week the team tied for seventh place with Pur
due University and University of Texas in the Butler Nation
al Intercolligiate Tournament.
Women’s tennis team at New Mexico
The women’s tennis team will play in the University of
New Mexico Invitational in Albuquerque Thursday through
Saturday. The tennis team won the Lady CardinalTouran-
ment at Lamar University on Sept. 22-24.
Cross-Country travels to San Antonio
After coming in second behind the University ofTexasat
the Baylor Invitational on Sept. 23, the men’s cross-country
team will go to a meet in San Antonio on Friday.
Softball team plays in Oklahoma
The Texas A&M softball team will take a 10-2 record into
the All College Classic this weekend. Last weekend the team
won in the Sam Houston Invitational.
Men’s tennis to play this weekend
After Greg Hill’s winning performance last weekend in
the Texas A&M Invitational, the men’s tennis team will
travel to Sourlake, Texas this weekend to play in the Pine
wood Invitational. Hill won the single’s title last weekend.
Women’s cross-country traveling to Arizona
The women’s cross-country team will participate in the
Arizona Invitational on Saturday. The team won theBaylot
Invitational two weeks ago with Suzanne Sheffield winning
first overall and Patti Mileski winning second overall.
Arkansas guard
ruled ineligible
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
Kenny Hutchinson, a heralded
freshman guard who was ex
pected to compete for a starting
role with the Arkansas Razor-
back basketball team, is not eligi
ble to play this year because he
failed to pass a New' York State
competency test for high school
seniors.
A UA official said the 6-3
guard from New York city plan
ned to stay in school and gain his
eligibility in time for the 1984-85
season. To do so, he must sat
factorily complete 24 hours
the next school year.
“Kenny is disappointed —
won’t play, but he is trying I
turn this into a positive 1 thl P
assistant coach Bill Browns)
Tuesday. “He realizes it
ably will take him five years
graduate anyway. Based i
tradition, realistically he
ably wouldn’t have started ui
our conference season
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merits, but New York is one
two states — Florida is theotl
— that requires its students
pass a competency test.
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