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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Friday, November 4,1983/The Battalion/Page 11 t Horns still favored Akers: Coogs ‘talented’ jtaited Press International 1 j rated Nebraska and i-ranked Texas are the )p| 10 teams with perfect Is this season and both are helming favorites Satur- i remain unblemished. — nbling protests/page 12 gs in trouble?/pagel3 braska’s Big Eight game t Iowa State isn’t even on ard, while Texas is rated nts better than Houston in louthwest Conference en- :r. : Cornhuskers, on a 19- winning streak, appear ppable. Oklahoma, cur- tied with Nebraska for the ght lead, may be the only enable of shredding the :rs when they clash in their conference game of the i on Nov. 26. anwhile, it’s expected that iska’s Heisman Trophy late Mike Rozier will con- Texas’ Fred Akers says Coog offense is strong. tinue to rip all ground defenses. He is the nation’s leading rusher with 1,446 yards along with av erages of 7.8 a carry and 160.7 yards a game. Add quarterback Turner Gill and wingback Irving Fryar to Nebraska’s backfield and the total output is enough to make the Huskers the No. 2 team be hind Brigham Young in total offense. Nebraska is the nation’s top rushing team and BYU the premier passing school in the U.S. “It’s very unusual to have three guys in the same backfield with the unique capabilities that Rozier, Gill and Fryar have,” says UCLA coach Terry Dono hue, whose team lost to Nebras ka 42-10 earlier this season. “The quarterback is a very good player, the slotback has unusual speed and the tailback is ob viously very good. Those three weaponsjust keep coming at you and eventually wear you down.” You won’t find Texas among the offensive leaders; the Lon ghorns’ forte is defense where they lead the nation in shutting down the pass and in total de fense. Closing in on the SWC title and a berth in the Cotton Bowl, Texas is gunning for its eighth straight win of the season against a Houston team that was blown out by the Longhorns 50- 0 last year. “We need to get charged up for the remainder of this sea son,” comments Texas coach Fred Akers. “Houston is a very dangerous football team. I doubt if anyone in the country is more physically talented. They have led the league (SWC) in offense the entire season. We seem to bring out the best in our opponents, and I’m expecting them to be at their best.” The closest call Texas en countered this season was a 15- 12 victory over Southern Methodist. Elsewhere in the top flight. No. 2 Auburn plays No. 7 Mary land, No. 4 Georgia engages No. 10 Florida, No. 5 Miami of Flor ida meets East Carolina, sixth- ranked Illinois plays Minnesota, No. 8 SMU tackles Rice and No. 9 North Carolina faces Clemson. Other key games pit No. 11 Oklahoma vs. Missouri, No. 12 BYU vs. Texas-El Paso, No. 13 Boston College vs. Army, No. 14 Iowa vs. Wisconsin, No. 15 Ohio Stale vs. Indiana, No. 16 Michi gan vs. Purdue, No. 17 Alabama vs. Louisiana State, No. 18 Notre Dame vs. No. 19 Pittsburgh and No. 2 0 West Virginia vs. Temple. A&M hosts SWC swim meet beginning today by Kay Mallett The Texas A&M men's and women's swim teams will host the Southwest Confer ence Relays today beginning at 4 p.m. in the Wofford Cain Natatorium. This is the second year for A&M to host the event and the first year for the women to compete in it. There will be six teams competing in 14 events. The teams are: Texas A&M, the University of Houston, Southern Methodist Universi- mrnmmm Ity exas Tech, and Texas Christ ian University. Swimming coach Mel Nash said the meet should be filled with tough competition for the Aggies. The uT and SMU men's teams are currently ranked No. 2 and No. 3 in the nation. Nash said he doesn't ex pect to win the relays, but said the Aggies, whose men's team was ranked 26th last year, could place anywhere from 2nd ■MHMM "We're a little bit stronger than we have been," Nash said. "And we swim pretty tough against the big boys. We're hoping to surprise them (the top teams)." Nash said the surprise ele ment should come Irom new depth the team has gained since his arrival at A&M five years ago. "We've just improved rapidly with no big names," he said. "Lately we've been known as the giant killers!" Potent Dallas attack scares Eagle defense ell not sad that Herschel on’t be playing Saturday Jnited Press International Georgia Bulldogs have ed the defection of Hers- J/i, AtfbfeValker to the U.S. Football le pretty well up to now. ound tie No. 4 ranked Bulldogs :ir fathe un f> ea t en through their ^ ight games with only a tie emson marring their re- ut Walker may be sorely d these next two Saturdays i Georgia plays 1 01 h - d Florida and 3rd-ranked rn. e have not been called L to play two teams as good ■ next two opponents,” said gia coach Vince Dooley, rgia will have to play better nvasioimve have at anytime for the ; 60 minutes if we hope to back agarvith Florida.” rs feel lilt ithout Walker, who would id. Denii been a senior this fall, he 118tlgia coach Vince Dooley has ird Gubar five tailbacks. None have more than a shadow of the in salisfi-time All-America, iday whilw athletes have dominated affSgl.Vies like Walker did in the 'acoma,! three Georgia-Florida ry E. Shrs. if., remake Bulldogs, enroute to the mal championship, came m Todd, behind on a 93-yard pass was insittion by Lindsay Scott to nip ■ Pfc. Mida 26-21 in 1980. But Wal- ol, N.H 'as the man who kept Geor- istead, ’lose enough to make that ’., andSfible — rushing for 238 son, of' 5 on 37 carries, including a ? all insadM touchdown run. hat left a bad taste in our ths,” Florida defensive tack- ■—artvid Galloway said the fol- tg August. “Just about ev- ear, Georgia is the team we t for. It seems like Georgia is ys beating Florida when da has something at stake. 7 know a lot of people were unhappy that Hers chel didn't return for his senior season. But you'll get no complaint from us. I think we saw Herschel at his Sunday best, not once, hut three times.’— Florida coach Charlie Pell on Saturday’s Georgia- Florida “We’re determined not to let Walker do that to us again.” Although the Gators keyed on Walker in 1981, he rushed for 192 yards on a Southeastern Conference record 47 carries and scored all four Georgia touchdowns in another 26-21 Bulldogs victory. “I wanted to call (Georgia coach) Vince Dooley the next morning,” recalled Florida coach Charley Pell. “I wanted him to tell me that, at the very least, that Herschel was sore from that pounding we gave him.” “Twice is enough,” said Flor ida linebacker Wilber Marshall when he announced the next summer that stopping Walker would be the Gators’ primary goal when they played Georgia last fall. They failed. That time, Walker rushed for 219 yards on 35 carries and scored three touchdowns — once on a 30-yard run, twice on 1-yard runs — as Georgia crushed Florida 44-0 in the series’ most lop-sided game in 14 years. In his three games against Florida, Walker, the 1982 Heis- man Trophy winner, rushed for a total of 649 yards and scored eight touchdowns. “I know a lot of people were unhappy that Herschel didn’t return for his senior season, that he didn’t give himself a shot at the all-time rushing and scoring records,” said Pell. “But you’ll get no complaint from us. I think we saw Herschel at his Sunday best, not once, but three times.” Pell wasn’t convined Walker’s absence would he the deciding factor in this year’s Georgia- Florida game. He pointed out that the Bulldogs offense, which has been slightly more produc tive than to the same point last year, is more versatile without Walker. “This is a different Georgia team than the past few years when they had the greatest run ning back of all time and you concentrated on how to stop him,” said Pell. “Now every play er on their offensive team is in volved. They all contribute.” But Georgia coach Vince Dooley said Walker’s absence would be felt because no one has stepped forward to take his role of “gamebreaker.” “The Georgia-Florida game usually comes down to an indi vidual player who rises to the occasion and makes the play at the crucial time,” said Dooley. “Herschel did that. Without him, we don’t seem to have that sort of player this year.” United Press International PHILADELPHIA — If the Philadelphia Eagles seem a little nervous on defense Sunday against the Dallas Gowboys, it’s not without reason. NFL roundup/page 13 The potent Cowboys offense had success running and passing in the last meeting of the two teams three weeks ago, and the result was a lopsided 37-7 vic tory in which Dallas gained 522 total yards. For the season, Dallas quar terback Danny White has thrown for 2,231 yards and 19 touchdowns. Running back Tony Dorsett, off to the second- best start of his career, ranks third in the NFC with 819 yards. “You really can’t key on one guy, especially in their passing attack,” Eagles linebacker Reg gie Wilkes said. “They throw to the wide receivers, tight ends and running backs. You know when they come in and run, Dorsett will come in and run the ball 80 percent of the time.” White, who has been under fire in Dallas this season, has been more of a gambling quar terback. He has thrown 15 inter ceptions, a Figure that has drop ped his rating among NFC quar terbacks to seventh. But his other Figures, such as Five touchdown passes in last week’s 38-20 win oveht at you and sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it,” he said. “He does not let interceptions affect him. He’s got conFidence to go after it. But you can be aggressive when you’ve got those receivers. “The last three games, he’s hardly been touched. People are just not getting to him. Either you go for the rush or try to de fend.” In the last Eagles-Cowboys meeting, Dallas tight end Doug Cosbie caught six passes for 84 yards and one touchdown. Campbell said a special effort will be made to stop Cosbie and running back Ron Springs (40 catches) on third-down passing plays. Drew Pearson, the Cowboys’ second-leading receiver with 35 catches, is listed as questionable for the game because of back spasms. The Eagles also have to be concerned with Dorsett. In its last three games, the defense has yielded 629 yards on the ground, 233 last week in a 22-21 loss to Baltimore. T.Xf.U.C. RACQUlSTBAXiIa TOITRISTAMENT DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 19, 20 ENTRY DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15 AT 5 P.M. WHERE: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, EAST KYLE COURTS. STARTING TIMES SHALL BE POSTED IN THE LOBBY AREA OF EAST KYLE AFTER 6 P.M. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. MATCHES SHALL BE 2 OF 3 GAMES TO 21, WITH THE TIEBREAKER GOING TO 11. ENTRY FEE: $15 FIRST EVENT, $5 SECOND EVENT. LIMIT 2 EVENTS. 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