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^Philadelphia — The
o las Cowboys are making a
tit of coming from behind,
coach Tom Landry will
ire you it is not by design,
he Cowboys, who have
led at one time or another in
lOpgames they have played,
into an early 10-0 hole Sun-
but recovered with the help
Danny White and Tony
rsett to post a 27-20 victory
r the Philadelphia Eagles to
ist their NFL-best record to
Philadelphia
n
ig
“We were fortunate to sur-
“ the first half,” Landry said,
lat made all the difference in
world. We don’t intend to get
ind. We were fortunate to be
ire we were at halftime to-
But our confidence is
n mission!'
at.’
ny broad White threw touchdown pas-
H a quafcof 12 yards to Timmy News-
auld fact;? in the second quarter and
ssible rt\ yards to Tony Hill in the
rth. The pass to Hill, with
ers would gave Dallas a 27-13
contenti vantage and provided a
tical ads, hion as the Eagles struck
pen to prjk b n a 71-yard TD bomb
y violatx 111 Ron Jaworski to rookie
n Young 27 seconds later.
'CC reqmfhlte, who has been under
lust Vy criticism from Dallas fans,
int and Pplpted 12 passes in a row at
particulf point to finish 21-of-24 for
Ustantial yards.
tohaveacToday was cold and miser-
ancPwaljA” White said. “I had bumps
candidal bruises and I didn’t feel
Dallas’ Tom Landry says
Cowboys lucked out again
good at all. I didn’t feel I threw
as well as I ever did but we had
the right plays at the right time.”
Dorsett’s 29-yard touchdown
run highlighted a 10-point third
quarter that enabled Dallas to
break a 10-10 halftime tie. Be
fore the run, Dorsett had been
limited to minus 5 yards in seven
carries and he finished with 51
yards.
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39-yard field goal in the second
quarter, gave the Cowboys the
lead for good with a 23-yard
field goal early in the third
period. The second kick came
after rookie safety Bill Bates rec
overed Jaworski’s fumbled snap
at the Philadelphia 10.
The Cowboys were held to
minus 3 yards of total offense in
the first quarter and tied the
game 10-10 on White’s TD pass
to Newsome and Septien’s field
goal.
“It’s a tough loss for us; the
guys put out a tough effort,”
Philadelphia coach Marion
Campbell said. “They jammed
our running game more in the
second half. A couple of drop
ped passes and mistakes hurt us.
But that’s the kind of effort that
wins most games.”
The game ended with Phi
ladelphia on the Dallas 37, but
out of time outs.
In losing their fourth straight
game, the Eagles, 4-6, piled up
126 yards of total offense in the
first quarter, but managed their
only points on a 20-yard TD pass
from Jaworski to Mike Quick.
Tony Franklin kicked a 19-
yard field goal in the second
quarter, during which Philadel
phia was outgained 115-11, and
added a 37-yard field goal in the
third.
On their first possession of
the game, the Eagles drove 67
yards in seven plays. Rookie
Michael Williams dashed 32
yards to move the ball to the 23.
Three plays later, Jaworski
found Quick with a short pass
over the middle and Quick
broke two tackles to complete
the 20-yard TD.
Although Philadelphia
dominated the remainder of the
period, it was unable to score.
After Franklin missed a 52-yard
field goal attempt, the Eagles
took possession at the Dallas 43
and marched to a Ist-and-goal at
the 4-yard line as the period en
ded. But the drive stalled at the
1-yard line and the Eagles were
forced to settle for Franklin’s 19-
yarder.
' The Cowboys got untracked a
short time later, picking up their
initial first down on a 16-yard
pass from White to Hill with just
under 10 minutes left in the half.
Dallas continued its drive, which
ended with Septien’s 39-yard
field goal.
The Cowboys got the ball
back with 1:16 left in the half.
They needed just 40 seconds in
four plays to go 68 yards for the
tying touchdown on the White-
to-Newsome pass. White com
pleted four straight passes in the
drive, including a 19-yard pass
to Ron Springs, and Dallas also
benefited from two Eagle penal
ties.
After Bates recovered
Jaworski’s fumble at the Phi
ladelphia 10, the Cowboys appa
rently scored a touchdown on
4th-and-goal on a 1-yard plunge
by Springs. But tackle Phil Poz-
derac was detected as an eligible
reciever without reporting to
the official, nullifying the touch
down. Septien came on for the
field goal.
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he hadyr HOUSTON — The question
New Ha:l°be on the minds of Cincin-
ie is Dec ‘f ans after the last three Sun-
?amichov s_ ~ bow did the Bengals lose
WMUtS anies l his season?
e in Ma Whatever the malady, it has
te’s onlv 5ec h an< J ' n ihe Astrodome
Flynt a; lc ^ a y quarterback Ken
Kuallyeif ^|| son and a Bengal horde
villasktlr e fe nse looked like the Super
> reject it *4 team they were in 1981,
^_^ting the hapless Houston
?rs 55-14 for their third
M ight win.
We’re really starting to put
igs together,” Anderson
'engals coach Forrest Gregg
ded to poor execution early
he season as the problem.
This was the best game we
sferrals executing the offense,” he
. “I thought Kenny played
The Bengals, 4-6, and aiming
:linil) back into the playoff
^^^ure, scored seemingly at will,
^^^inost cases, the Bengals’
SS^^nse was given easy chip shots
ise of the defensive play,
hat defense, led by Reggie
liains and Ken Riley — a con-
t for the Bengals all season
:aused seven turnovers and
no doubt a long Oilers’ los-
streak would continue.
iThis is the best the whole
n has played this year,” Wil
is said. “We intended to stop
Oilers’ Oliver Luck will
start at QB next Sunday
Earl (Campbell) by pushing
their offensive line back, and
that worked.”
Campbell, healthy for the
first time in three games, gained
only 42 yards on 16 carries. He
did not play in the second half as
the Oilers tried to recover from a
34-0 deficit.
Oilers interim head coach
Chuck Studley changed quar
terbacks after one quarter to
second-year pro Oliver Luck,
and after the game Studley said
Luck would start the next game.
Studley declined to characte
rize starter Gifford Nielsen’s
performance.
“It would be unwise of me to
say that the defeat should not be
spread to all areas. It simply was
a case of total domination,” he
said.
Anderson, sidelined with a
neck injury for 3 ‘/z games,
threw for 107 yards and one
touchdown in the 2 '/z quarters
he played, and called on fullback
Pete Johnson to barrel for three
touchdowns on short runs.
Bengals tailback Stanley Wil
son scored the other touchdown
on a 1-yard run, Larry Kinneb-
rew ran three yards for a touch
down, wide receiver Cris Col-
linsworth caught a 14-yard pass
for a score and placekicker Jim
Breech made good on field goals
of 44 and 29 yards.
The Bengals’ defense made
the rout possible as linebacker
Williams recovered two fum
bles, carrying the second one 59
yards for a touchdown, and
making crunching tackles that
caused two other fumbles.
Cornerbacks Riley and Ray
Horton, and safety Bobby Kemp
intercepted Oiler passes that
contributed to an Oilers decision
to take a look at second-year
quarterback Oliver Luck.
The Bengals, 4-6, won their
third straight game as they con
tinued an offensive explosion
they hope will get them back into
the playoff picture. They have
now scored 117 points in three
games.
Luck, playing the final three
quarters, completed 24 of 41
passes for 229 yards, and threw a
21-yard touchdown pass to Tim
Smith. Running back Curtis
Brown scored on a 1-yard in the
final minute for the Oilers.
But the Oilers still suffered
their 17th consecutive loss —
one short of a club record. Else-
where the Tampa Bay
Bucaneers’ 17-12 win over Min
nesota left the Oilers, 0-10, the
only winless team in 1983.
The Bengals Sunday ex
ploded for 24 points in the first
quarter with two touchdowns
following Oiler turnovers.
Linebacker Tom Dinkle’s re
covery of Earl Campbell’s fum
ble after Campbell was stripped
of the ball by Ross Browner led
to Collinsworth’s touchdown
and a 14-0 lead.
Breech kicked his first field
goal, a 44-yarder, following
Riley’s interception.
That interception, the 62nd
of Riley’s 15-year career, tied
him with Dick LeBeau as the
fourth most prolific pass thief in
NFL history. Riley’s current
coach is LeBeau.
Boos greeted regular Oilers’
quarterback Gifford Nielsen
everytime he stepped on the
field in the first quarter.
Rained out
Mother Nature stops play during
Texas A&M 4-Way tournament
by Bob Caster
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s ten
nis team placed three players
in the singles quarterfinals
and two teams in doubles
quarterfinals in the Texas
A&M 4-Way tennis tourna
ment over the weekend, but
that’s as far as they got. In fact,
that’s as far as anyone got —
because it’s hard to play tennis
in scuba gear.
No, the rain did not float
the bleachers away at the
Omar Smith Tennis Center
but it was enough to cancel the
match. No winners. No losers.
Save the trophies — they’ll
come in handy next year.
The other teams compet
ing in the tournament were
TCU, the University of Texas
and Oklahoma State — three
of the nation’s top rated
teams.
Greg Hill, A&M’s top seed
and the No. 4 tournament
seed, advanced to the quarter
finals beating Paul Pearce of
OSU and John Baker from
TCU. Also reaching the quar
terfinals for the Aggies was
Marcel Vos, who defeated
OSU’s Brit White and Tony
Macken of TCU.
But perhaps the most sur
prising win for A&M came as
freshman Grant Connell
found himself in the quarter
finals by beating the swim fins
off of OSU’s Peter Mallett, the
No. 1 tournament seed. Con
nell also downed TCU’s Mar
tin Novak.
The doubles teams of Hill/
Connell and Vos/Perry also
made the jump to quarterfin-
Dean Saito, Battalion staff
Texas A&M’s Greg Hill returns the ball
during the A&M 4-Way tourney Friday.
als before nature won the
tournament by default.
The Aggies were playing
without freshman Mark
Smith, who has an ankle in
jury, and senior Arnold Kette-
nacker, who is out with a frac
tured thumb. Jan Fambro,
assistant sports information
director, said the Aggies also
lost Russ Simmons, who cut
his foot in the first round of
competition.
Conners, Evert Lloyd
doubles tourney
win
United Press International
HOUSTON — Chris Evert
Lloyd and Jimmy Connors, in
their first doubles partnership
in nine years, overcame Roscoe
Tanner and Andrea Jaeger in
straight sets Sunday to win the
world’s richest mixed doubles
tournament.
With shot making that
earned them multiple Wimble
don and U.S. Open titles, Con
nors and Evert Lloyd dominated
Tanner and Jaeger for a 6-4, 6-
2, 6-4 victory in the $400,000
World Mixed Doubles Cham
pionship.
Evert Lloyd, the No. 2 ranked
women’s player, and Connors,
the No. 3 ranked men’s player,
collected $100,000 for their win.
Tanner and Jaeger won $50,000
as runner-ups.
Connors and Evert Lloyd
broke Jaeger’s serve in the
second game to take the lead
they mainted throughout the
set. The second set opened with
onghorns capture SWC Relays
Members of the Texas A&M
women’s 200-yard breaststroke relay
Dean Saito, Battalion staf
team cheer on Susan Holliday at
SWC Relays Friday night.
The Texas Longhorns and
the SMU Mustangs finished 1-
2 in Friday’s Southwest Con
ference Swimming Relays,
hosted by Texas A&M in P.L.
Downs Natatorium.
The Longhorns had to wait
for the final men’s event to
clinch the first meet of the
1983 season, when their 400-
yard freestyle relay team slip
ped past SMU by one second
to win the event and the meet,
81-80. A&M was third with 61
points.
The UT women also cap
tured first, with the Aggies
finishing second.
Six teams — A&M, UT,
SMU, Texas Tech, Texas
Christian University and the
University of Arkansas — bat
tled in 14 events for top places
in the relay meet.
A&M swimming coach Mel
Nash said the Aggies swam
well against some top teams.
“I couldn’t be happier with
the performances.” Nash said.
Though the Aggies didn’t
break any school records, the
times they swam showed a vast
improvement over last year’s
performances. Nash said the
improvement was because a
larger percentage of the team
worked out over the summer.
“Swimming is a year-round
sport,” he said, “so if you want
to be good, you’ve got to train
year-round. Almost 100 per
cent of the team practiced
over the summer this year.”
Nash said it was hard to
judge individual perform
ances in a relay meet, and also
said it was tough to pick out
individual team members
when the team swam well
overall.
But the fifth-year Aggie
coach singled out returning
All-America swimmer Chris
O’Neil, saying he swam im
pressively.
“Chris is swimming as fast
now as he was last year at the
NCAA’s,” Nash said.
Both the men and women
travel to Dallas this weekend
for dual meets. They’ll clash
with SMU on Friday and will
go against TCU on Saturday
before returning to College
Station.
SMU’s men’s team finished
No. 2 in the nation last season,
and are favored to do as well
this season.
Tanner, Connors and Jaeger
losing their serves, but Evert
Lloyd held her service to give the
No. 3 seeds a two-game lead.
In the seventh game of the
third set, Connors and Evert
Lloyd broke Jaeger’s serve to
pull ahead in the set.
Following the match, Evert
Lloyd joked the renunion of the
“Love’s Doubles,” as the couple
was dubbed in 1974 when they
were playing together and en
gaged, was only made possible
by the willingness of their
spouses.
“I’d like to thank John Lloyd
first and Patty Connors for giv
ing Jimmy and I the permission
to play. Of course, they sat in the
first row the whole tourna
ment,” she said.
“We haven’t played together,
tennis together, in about nine
years. It was really great playing
with him. He was very competi
tive,” she said.
Evert Lloyd said any criticism
of Connors’ skill as a doubles
player was unfounded.
“Anybody who says he’s not a
great doubles player should
watch him and see,” she said.
When asked if the Connors-
Evert Lloyd team might make a
comeback on the doubles circuit,
Connors emphatically replied:
“No.”
“Let’s don’t push it. Maybe
next year at this time, if we’re
invited back and she wants to put
up with this, we might play again
next year at this time,” he said.
“Once a year is enough I
think,” added Evert Lloyd, 28,
ranked No. 2 in the world in
women’s singles.
The three-time Wimbledon
winner said she was surprised
the team had reached the finals
since neither had played many
doubles events and none
together in nine years.
“But we didn’t come here ex
pecting not to (get this far). You
don’t come into this event not
thinking you’re going to win,”
Connors said.
Connors, 31, of Los Angeles,
is a five-time U.S. Open cham
pion. He has twice won the
men’s singles title at Wimb
ledon.
Connors-Evert Lloyd, who
were runners-up in U.S. Open
mixed doubles in 1974, antici
pated a “very tough” match
against Tanner-Jaeger, who
paired for the first time.
Jaeger, 18, of Lincolnshire,
Ill., is ranked No. 3 in the world
in women’s singles while the left-
handed Tanner, 32, of Kiawah
Islafid, S.C., is ranked No. 42 on
the men’s circuit.
Gervin leads Spurs
past SuperSonics
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — George
Gervin scored 32 points, and
Johnny Moore handed out 18
assists as the San Antonio Spurs
broke a three-game losing skid
with an easy 132-115 victory
over the Seattle SuperSonics
Sunday night.
The Spurs led the entire
second half, expanding a 73-61
halftime advantage to as many
as 19 points behind the strength
of newly-acquired backup cen
ter Mark McNamara, who neut
ralized the Sonics’ foul-plagued
Jack Sikma.
San Antonio went flat at the
end of the third quarter, losing
half of a 16-point lead, and
failed to answer five consecutive
Sonic points to open the final
quarter.
First year head coach Mo
McHone reinserted Moore and
Gervin with 9:16 to play, and
Gervin hit 10 points in the next 2
Vz minutes to boost the Spurs’
advantage to 117-101 with 6:41
to play.
Seattle, playing most of the
second half without forward
Danny Vranes, who was ejected
along with Spurs forward Gene
Banks for fighting, failed to
make a charge. Gus Williams led
the Soncis with 26 points and 10
assists.
Spurs center Artis Gilmore
had 16 first quarter points to
give San Antonio a 36-32 edge.
The Sonics gained the lead only
once, 10-8 on an.Al Wood jum
per at 9:30 of the first quarter.