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.
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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.
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