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Wednesday, January 11, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Aggies host Bears
n must-win game
by Dave Scott
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M and Baylor face
n early elimination from the
outhwest Conference basket-
all race when they square off
/night in G. Rollie White Col-
;eum at 7:30.
Both teams suffered their
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f Arkansas last week and need a
in to stay in the race. The
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\nse camp: ingelo State 77-67 Monday.
The Aggies played sloppily
gainst ASU but pulled a victory
ut with some sharp shooting
rom the free throw line. Center
ision, soldm immie Gilbert, who had been
ry dormim liooting 43.7 percent from the
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beat Baylor,” Metcalf said. “We
have to take better care of the
ball.
"They’ll be bigger than we
are, but we’ll probably have a lit
tle quickness on them.”
The Aggies will have their
work cut out for them on the
boards. Baylor is expected to
start 6-11 Paul Kuiper at center,
with 6-8 Mike Heller and 6-7
David Cilover at the forward
positions.
This matches with 6-9 Gilbert
at center, 6-7 Winston Crite and
6-6 Mike Clifford at forward.
Clifford is still recovering
from a stomach virus which kept
him out of the Arkansas game.
The freshman from Round
Rock was ineffective in limited
action against ASU. The virus is
hitting the Aggies hard. For
ward A1 Pulliam said after the
ASU game that he was “sick as a
dog” despite being the leading
scorer with 18 points on eight of
ten shooting in Monday’s con
test.
Metcalf also said Todd Hollo
way wasn’t feeling 100 percent.
Darnell Williams started in place
of Holloway against Angelo
State.
Sophomore guard Doug Lee
returned to action Monday after
being out since Dec. 10 when he
severely sprained an ankle
against Oral Roberts. Lee said
the ankle didn’t bother him too
much even though he only
scored two points in 13 minutes.
“It hurt me driving to the
hoop, that’s about it,” he said.
“The doctor told me I’d be play
ing with quite a bit of pain.”
The Aggies’ leading scorer is
guard Kenny Brown at 11.4
points per game. The Bears are
paced by 5-11 guard James
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WASHINGTON — But for a
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acquetball, golf or tennis this
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neeting with Coach Joe Gibbs,
letennined that Theismann
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first five games under Gibbs.
The fifth setback was a 30-17 de
cision to San Francisco in which
the Redskins trailed 30-3 before
scoring two meaningless touch
downs.
"I didn’t feel good and I
know Joe Gibbs didn’t,” Theis
mann said Monday, enjoying
some time off before beginning
preparations for the Jan. 22 Su
per Bowl meeting with the Los
Angeles Raiders. “I drove to
Joe’s house — we lived only ab
out a mile apart then — and Pat
(Gibbs’ wife) had to wake him.
“We talked for about two
hours about . . . the Redskins,
me, him and what had to be
done. I wanted him to know that
he had a quarterback who was
willing to do anything to help the
Redskins win.”
From that meeting came an
understanding between the two
and the cancellation of trade
talks with several NFL clubs, in
cluding the Lions.
“There’s no way I wanted to
leave Washington. I don’t now,
either,” said Theismnn, refer
ring to his upcoming contract
renegotiation talks with Red
skins’ owner Jack Kent Cooke.
“I want to stay in Washing
ton, but we’ll see what happens.”
Raiders’ Long
says Super Bowl
is just a game
Dean Saito, Battalion staff
Cougars unimpressive
in victory over Texas
Winston Crite drives in for the dunk in the
Aggies’ 77-67 win over Angelo State Monday.
A&M looks for its second straight victory
tonight against Baylor at 7:30 p.m.
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Los
Angeles defensive lineman
Howie Long says the cannons
can stay home. So can the nuc
lear weapons.
“It’s not like Russia is fighting
America for Florida,” he said of
his team’s Super Bowl matchup
against the Washington Red
skins Jan. 22 at Tampa, Fla. “It’s
just a football game.”
Just a football game. Not if it’s
anything like last Sunday’s 30-14
victory over the Seattle Sea-
hawks in the AFC championship
game.
“People said the Raiders beat
them (the Seahawks) up, knock
ed them down, slashed their
tires,” Long, a Pro-Bowler at
end, said. “It was just a football
game.”
The Raiders lost two regular-
season games to the Seahawks
and Long said comments from
Seattle players fired up Los
Angeles.
“We heard some things they
were saying in newspapers and
on talk shows in Seattle,” said
Long. “They said they handled
Lyle (Alzado) twice and they
were going to handle him again.
“Chuck Knox (Seattle’s coach)
heard about it and by the middle
of the week he was saying his
players didn’t mean it. But we
said, ‘It’s too late, Chuck.”’
Long, a 6-foot-5, 270-pound
second-round draft selection in
1981, said the Raiders have been
given a bum-rap by being called
a dirty football team.
“We play power football,” he
said. “I’m a hungry individual,
but I’m not mean.”
The Raiders, 12-4 during the
regular season, lost to Washing
ton 37-35 on Oct. 2. Los Angeles
played without Marcus Allen,
last season’s Rookie of the Year,
and Alzado was playing on a bad
knee.
Long doesn’t think either
team will try to finesse the other.
“It’ll be power football against
power football,” he said. “It’ll be
an old-fashioned game. I’m only
24, but I think that’s the way the
game was played in the past.”
Long said the Redskins are
more than one-dimensional.
“They definitely have a lot
more versatility than giving it to
(John) Riggins,” he said. “Joe
Washington killed us last time.”
Though he’ll be out to throt
tle him. Long said he respects
Riggins.
“I like John Riggins,” he said.
“He’s one of the guys I look up
to. He doesn’t try to change hisct
to suit his profession. He just
gets the ball and trys to ram it
down your throat. I respect
that.”
And Long said he knows
where the Redskins get their
“Hogs.”
“They grow these people in
Lubbock, Texas, and get them
to block,” he said.
Long credits Alzado with
teaching him how to prepare to
play football. Asked if he’s ever
seen another side of his team
mate, Long laughed.
“Lyle doesn’t listen to Pavar
otti, he doesn’t quote Thoreau,”
said Long.
The Pro Bowl selection was a
thrill for Long.
“I don’t have an uncle on the
committee, so I must have im
pressed somebody,” he kidded.
Long said the Raiders realize
what it means to win an NFL
championship.
“It’s an opportunity for us to
make a niche in history,” he said.
“We feel very fortunate to get. to
this point.”
The Raiders, given two days
off by" Coach Tom Flores, re
sume practice Thursday. The
coaching staff leaves Sunday for
Tampa with the players flying
east the following day.
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HOUSTON — Guard Reid
ettys scored 12 points to lead
he sluggish Houston Gougars
lo a 69-58 Southwest Confer-
]nce win over Texas Tuesday
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Houston won its 27th con-
ecutive SWC game — the third
fiis season — on a night that 7
pot center Akeem Olajuwon
lasheltl to 9 points and high-
ping forward Michael Young
[as held to less than 20 points
Pr the first time in 10 games.
The Cougars pushed their
jecord overall to 13-2, while
[Texas fell to 4-9.
Texas guard Marcus Bolden
tdall scorers with 13 points and
ivo other Longhorns, George
Davis and Garlton Gooper, chip- used his “smother brothers”
ped in 12 points apiece. guard trio of senior Derek Giles,
Geliys, starting only his third junior Eric Dickens and sopho-
game, led his team with six field more Renaldo Thomas,
goals, but was not in the game
during the critical moments Those three combined lo
when Houston coach Guy Lewis score 14 points.
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