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Texas A&M defenders Ray Childress, Jerry
Bullitt and Chris Lammers surround TCU
quarterback Anthony Sciaraffa after a sack
during A&M’s 20-10 victory Saturday in
Fort Worth. A&M raised its record to 5-4-1,
with only UT remaining on the schedule.
No bowl for Aggies
despite 20-10 victory
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
There it was — seat number 88 in the press box
of TCU’s Amon Carter Stadium.
“The Fightin’ Frogs of TCU welcome The
Independence Bowl,” the place card said.
But the seat was empty throughout the Aggies’
less-than-overwhelming 20-10 win over the
Horned Frogs. After the game, there was no in
vitation to Shreveport handed out to Jackie Sher
rill and his team.
• A&M SWIMMING/page 10
• CHILDRESS/page 10
Air Force and Mississippi will face off Dec. 10,
Independence Bowl officials decided, so the
Aggies decided to relish the victory over TCU and
look to Saturday’s season Finale against undefe
ated Texas.
“A win is a win,” Texas A&M tight end Rich
Siler said after the game, “it doesn’t matter if we
win by one point or 100 points. Now it’s Texas and
we’re ready for them.”
And for awhile, it seemed the Aggies were
ready to dispose of TCU in short work, but the
Horned Frogs didn’t fold until a last-minute goal
line stand by the Texas A&M defense sealed the
Aggie win.
“We came out and look the wind and started to
make some things happen,” Sherrill said. “But
penalties hurt us and we had to go for the field
goal (on A&M’s first drive). After that, we just
didn’t play well cohesively on offense. We just
weren’t sharp offensively. And TCU played well
defensively.”
That they did.
TCU held Texas A&M’s sensational quarter
back Kevin Murray to a mere 116 yards passing,
but while Murray completed only 11 of 30 passes,
he hit the ones that counted. A quick screen to
receiver Jimmie Williams set up Texas A&M’s first
score — a 43-yard field goal by Alan Smith.
And moments later, Murray hit freshman run
ning back Rod Bernstine over the middle and
Bernstine proceeded to romp 41 yards to help set
up the Aggies’ first touchdown ot the day. It came
when reserve tight end John Kellen freed himself
in the endzone and hauled in a, you guessed it,
Murray pass. With Smith’s extra point, the Aggies
took a comfortable 10-0 lead.
From there, the Aggies sputtered their way to
the win, but it was no fault of freshman fullback
Roger Vick. Vick grinded out 110 of Texas A&M’s
165 yards rushing for the day. It marked the first
time an A&M runner has gained over 100 yards in
one game since Ernest Jackson did it two years
ago. Not surprisingly, Vick was pleased with his
performance.
“It feels really good,” Vick said. “I felt confi
dent going into the game. All I can say is it’s about
time. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
The line was really opening up the holes — they
were doing the job.”
But while Vick and the offensive line were get
ting the job done, Sherrill said the Aggies could
never put the game away because there were too
many intangibles to overcome — namely, six men
in striped shirts.
“It the officiating keeps going on like this, they
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do the things we would normally do. It doesn’t !
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against. Everybody knows I asked this crew not to j
be used in this game.”
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of Rob Jones, Ted Benson, Bill Walters, Charles |
Caraway, Don Ponder and Clint Ramsey — the i
same group of referees that made a controversial
no-touchdown call in the Aggies’ 10-7 loss to SMU |
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Sherrill cited one particular instance during the
TCU game that irritated him.
“There was a time out on the field and I asked
the official what the call was — I asked to talk to
him. And he just turned his back and walked
away. Something’s got to be done in this confer
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United Press International
Just as it was drawn up on the blackboard,
three Southwest Conference teams were tick
eted Saturday for Texas’ three bowl games.
Texas won its 18th trip to the Cotton Bowl
ly virtue of its victory over Baylor Saturday,
SMU was given a spot in the Sun Bowl and
Baylor will travel to the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Those were the arrangements made^ week
ago in the wheeling and dealing that went on
with an assortment of bowl officials.
The Longhorns will be facing the Georgia
Bulldogs Jan. 2 in what will be Texas’ 30th bowl
apperance and its seventh in a row.
Texas has been in the Cotton Bowl more
than any other team and returns for the first
time since it upset the Alabama Crimson Tide
two years ago.
The Longhorns have a 9-7-1 record in the
Cotton Bowl and a 15-12-1 overall bowl record.
Field Scovell of the Cotton Bowl Association
extended the invitation to the Longhorns.
“You are great champions,” he said. “On
behalf of the Cotton Bowl Association, I want
to invite you to be in Dallas on Jan. 2. The next
thing I want to know is whether you accept.”
That was followed by loud ovation from
players.
Quarterback Rob Moerschell said, “This is
what it is all about, making it to the Cotton
Bowl. That’s why I came here, to get the ring
and play in a game like that.”
SMU, meanwhile, will be going to a bowl
game for the second straight season and it
marks only the second time the Mustangs have
made post-season trips two years in a row.
It will also be the second trip for SMU to the
Sun Bowl, where the Mustangs will face Alaba
ma on Christmas Eve. The Mustangs went to
the Sun Bowl in 1963, when that bowl first
began trying to attract major college teams.
The Mustangs will be trying to even its bowl
record, currently owning a 3-4-1 mark.
Baylor will be going to a bowl for the first
time since the Bears made it to the Cotton Bowl
in the 1980 season.
Baylor’s meeting with Oklahoma State, a 30-
7 winner over Iowa State Saturday, will also be
its second trip to the Bluebonnet Bowl. The
Bears went to Houston for the 1963 game,
when they knocked off LSU, 14-7.
The Bears’ overall bowl record currently
stands at 5-5.
In Austin to extend the invitation to the
Bears, Bluebonnet Executive Director Ted
Nance said, “A month ago our selection com
mittee met and decided if we could get Baylor,
we would have the most exciting team in
Texas.”
But after Baylor’s narrow 24-21 loss to
Texas, Nance said, “Well we changed our
minds. We feel like we’re getting the most ex
citing team in the United States.”
Georgia coach Vince Dooley says
Bulldogs are excited about Horns
United Press International
ATHENS, Ca. — University of Georgia
coach Vince Dooley says his team is excited and
faces “a very big challenge” in playing second-
ranked Texas in the Jan. 2 Cotton Bowl in
Dallas.
“Playing the Southwest Conference cham
pion means we are going to play a great team,”
Dooley said after Cotton Bowl President J. L.
Huffines and executive vice president Jim
Brock extended the bowl invitation to the 7lh-
ranked Bulldogs Saturday evening. “It will be a
very big challenge for our football team,” the
coach said.
“The Cotton Bowl people have a tradition of
doing things first class in every respect and we
are looking forward to being with them again,”
Dooley said. Georgia’s last appearance in the
classic was in 1975 when they lost to Arkansas,
31-10. The Bulldogs played one other time in
the Cotton Bowl, in 1966 when they beat SMU,
24-9.
In issuing the invitation, Brock said, “Geor
gia has one of the outstanding football prog
rams in the country and has been as visible as
any team in America the last few years. Vince
Dooley is one of the premier coaches in the
business and one of the great gentlemen in
college football. Georgia has tremendous fans
and we are looking forward to having them in
Dallas.”
Georgia is 8-1-1 for the year and faces only
Georgia Tech next weekend before complet
ing its season. Texas, unbeaten in nine games,
beat Baylor Saturday.
The reaction from Bulldog players was that
they have a tough opponent in Texas.
Terry Hoage, an All-America senior defen
sive back frqm Texas, said he is excited about
returning to his home state to play the Lon
ghorns.
“It’s an opportunity for me to go home to
play my last game,” he said. “I know Dallas is an
exciting city and it will be a fun trip.”
“All I know is that we may be playing the best
team in the country,” commented defensive
back Darryl Jones.
Quarterback John Lastinger said Texas has
the top defense in the country. “We’ll have our
work cut out for us,” he added.
Guy McIntyre, one of the anchors on the
offensive line, said, “We’re looking forward to
going to Dallas and playing what is a great
football team.”
Dorsett-led Cowboys handle KC
United Press International
IRVING — Tony Dorsett gal
loped for two touchdowns and
became the ninth player to sur
pass the 8,000-yard career
rushing mark Sunday and the
Dallas Cowboys fought off a
flurry of Bill Kenney passes to
down the Kansas City Chiefs,
41-21.
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For the first time all season 1
the Cowboys led from start to
finish, raising their record to 10-
2 and slaying even with the
Washington Redskins atop the
NFC East.
Kansas City, which fell be
hind by a 27-0 score before Ken
ney began to pick away at the
Dallas secondary, slipped to 5-7.
Dorsett ran 28 yards for Dal-.
las’ second touchdown midway
through the second quarter and
then broke free for a 32-yard
scoring run early in the third
period.
Dorsett picked up 108 yards
during the day, raising his sea
son total to 1,036 and his career
total to 8,051. It marks the 12th
time in 13 years — dating back to
Dorsett’s junior year in high
school — that he has surpassed
the 1,000-yard mark.
During the strike-shortened
season of 1982, Dorsett man
aged just 745 yards in nine con
tests.
Ron Springs scored Dallas’
first touchdown on a 1-yard run
at the end of the Cowboys’ first
possession, Rafael Septien
added field goals of 25 and 40
yards and, after Kansas City had
climbed to within 13 points,
Timmy Newsome scored on a
third-down draw play from the
7-yard line.
Then, with less than seven mi
nutes to play, Cary Allen re
turned a punt 68 yards for
another score — the first time in
six years the Cowboys had
scored on a punt return.
Kenney, who broke Len Daw
son’s Kansas City record for
most passing yardage in a single
season, was intercepted twice in
the first half.
But he directed an 80-yard
march on the Chiefs’ second
possession of the second half
and finished it off with an 18-
yard scoring pass to Carlos
Carson.
Four minutes later Kenney
and Carson hooked up on a 48-
yard scoring pass. Kenney
finished the day with 23 comple
tions out of 40 attempts for 337
yards, but left the contest in
favor of Todd Blackledge when
the Chiefs fell behind by 20
points.
Blackledge, the rookie from
Penn State, threw his second
professional touchdown pass
with 2:12 remaining in the
game, a 7-yarder to Stephen
Paige.
Dorsett, who had complained
during the week about his inabil
ity to produce 100-yard games
of late, scored his first touch
down at the end of an 80-yard
Dallas march.
Having a first-and-10 at the
Chiefs’ 28, Dorsett was called on
to sweep right end. He started
off in that direction, but cut back
to the left and easily scored. It
was on that run that Dorsett
moved past 8,000 yards for his
career.
High school playoff action
Plano, Highland Park roll
Class 5A Regional Playoffs
Midland Lee vs. Trimble Tech, 7;30 p m. Friday, Ft. Worth.
Odessa Permian vs, WF Rider, 8 p m. Friday, Wichita Falls.
Highland Park vs. Klein, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dallas.
Plano vs. Temple, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Waco.
Madison vs. Aldine, 4 p.m. Saturday, Astrodome
Yates vs. Dickinson, 7-.30 p.m. Saturday, Astrodome
Converse Judsou vs. Alice, 2 p.m. Saturday, Austin.
SA Churchill vs. Edinburg, 7:30 p.m. Friday, McAllen.
United Press International
The coaching maxim that
offense wins games but defense
wins championships slammed
home for two defending state
champions this weekend in
Texas high school football play
off action.
Beaumont West Brook, the sur
prise Class 5A titlist last year, was
shut out by Dickinson, 10-0, in
an area playoff game and Re
fugio, the Class 3A champ last
year, fell to Falfurrias, 12-7.
The West Brook and Refugio
defeats leave only defending
Class 4A champion Willowridge
with a chance of repeating and
the Eagles, 15-0 winners over
Taylor in a bi-district contest,
are odds-on favorites to com
plete their second straight unde
feated season.
But Willowridge must first
get by Jasper Saturday in
Pasadena in a game which will be
a rematch of last year’s regional
playoff. And Jasper coach Gene
Walkoviak is predicting a tighter
game than last year’s 34-7 Wil
lowridge runaway.
“We just approach it like any
other game, though I think to
really have a chance we’ve got to
have a low score,” Walkoviak
said following his team’s 32-7
win over Brazosport in a bi
district matchup.
While Jasper’s rock-solid de
fense held Brazosport to only
seven points, the offense had to
explode for 18 points in the final
period to put the game away.
Walkoviak is counting on his de
fense against Willowridge.
“I think we’ve got a good de
fense,” Walkoviak said. “It’s a lit
tle bit quicker than last year”
when Jasper shut out more than
half of its 13 opponents.
In Class 5A play, Highland
Park and Plano, ranked first and
third respectively in the final
United Press International high
school football poll, continued
churning toward a long-awaited
quarterfinal matchup.
Highland Park eased by
Richardson, 21-13, and Plano
demolished Mesquite, 28-3.
Elsewhere in Class 5A, Midland
Lee routed El Paso Irvin 48-14
Friday while perennial conten
der Odessa Permian rolled over
El Paso Eastwood, 48-0.
If Lee and Permian win re
gional playoff games this
weekend, they will meet in a
quarterfinal rematch of the reg
ular season contest that saw Lee
hand the Panthers their only dis
trict loss in three years.
Another quarterfinal re
match appeared in the works in
San Antonio, where Converse
Judson defeated Stafford Dul
les, 20-7, and San Antonio
Churchill edged a tough Brazos-
wood team, 21-17.
If Judson defeats Alice and
Churchill gets by Edinburg in
regional games this weekend^
the two will replay last year’s
quarterfinal that saw Judson
prevail 10-7.
“We’re slipping in the back
door again,” said Churchill
coach Jerry Comalander, who
has taken his team to the region
al playoffs or beyond the past
three seasons. “We kind of had a
slow start this year, but the last
five weeks we’ve been playing
well together as a team.”
Comalander downplayed the
possible Judson rematch.
“We felt like we dominated
last year, but lost it on a long pass
late in the game,” Comalander
said. “We’re so much smaller
and we’re just trying to play
them one at a time.”
In Class 3A, Littlefield adv
anced with a 19-6 win over Chil
dress while Navasota coasted by
Brookshire Royal, 16-7. Little
field, finalists in 1982, could face
surprising Post in a quarterfinal
showdown if the Antelopes, 14-
10 winners over Muleshoe, get
past Crane in a regional
matchup.
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