Page 16AThe Battalion/Monday, April 16, 1984
Spring game bad dream for Sherrill, Murray
By TRAVIS TINGLE
Sports Writer
For Texas A&M coach Jackie
Sherrill, Saturday the 14th
turned an annual reunion in
Kyle Field into a nightmare
come true.
The Varsity won the Annual
Varsity-Former Student Foot
ball Game, as expected, 13-0.
But, more important than the
score of the game, A&M’s
promising sophomore quar
terback Kevin Murray suffered
a knee injury during the third
quarter.
With 12:18 left to play in the
third quarter, Murray at
tempted to pass, but was sacked
by about five defenders. Mur
ray hit the Astroturf flat on his
back, then tried to bring himself
to his feet. He fell back to the
ground in agony, clutching his
right leg.
Trainers carried Murray off
the field as 10,400 Aggie faith
fuls looked on in shock and dis
belief.
At the press conference after
the game, Sherrill described
Murray’s condition as if he, too,
was in a state of shock.
“Right now it appears it won’t
need an operation,” Sherrill
said. “It’s a twisted knee. He’ll
have to go through a stress test,
and if that’s positive, he’ll need
an arthroscope. If not, he could
be in a cast for six weeks.”
Sherrill’s diagnosis was fairly
accurate.
Athletic Department sources
reported Sunday that Murray
suffered a partially torn exte
rior ligament in his left knee.
Officials said that no surgery
will be required, but Murray will
wear a hinged immobilizer for
six weeks. The hinged immobi
lizer will allow Murray to bend
his knee, unlike a cast, while still
protecting his injury.
After six weeks, Murray is ex
pected to begin a rehabilitation
program to prepare him for the
season opener with UTEP, Sep
tember 1.
Sherrill hopes the Aggies’
early season schedule will bene
fit Murray’s recovery.
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two week break,” Sherrill said.
“He may or not be ready for the
first game or even the second.”
One reporter asked Sherrill
if he had nightmares about this
sort of thing happening in a
spring game.
“It’s like walking across a
street,” Sherrill replied. “It can
happen in scrimmages too.”
All the quarterbacks in Satur
day’s scrimmage wore bright
red jerseys so they could be eas
ily identified by the referees
and, above all, the defenses.
In last year’s game, officials
blew quick whistles when it
looked as if a quarterback was in
danger of being sacked. Satur
day’s game wasn’t called nearly
as strict.
Craig Stump, A&M’s reserve
quarteback, and alumni quar
terbacks David Walker and Edd
Hargett hit the turf far too
many times. Earlier whistles
could have saved the quar
terbacks from unecessary con
tact.
“We were more lax on that
today than we should have
been,” Sherrill said.
Before being injured, Mur
ray completed seven of 17
passes for 61 yards. He and
wide receiver Shea Walker com
bined in the second quarter for
the game’s only touchdown — a
13-yard pass completion to the
right corner of the endzone.
Eric Franklin, brother of All-
SWC kicker Tony Franklin,
provided the rest of the Varsi
ty’s points with field goals of 29
and 26 yards in the first half.
For the alumni, Curtis
Dickey, David Brothers, George
Woodard and David Walker
were reunited once again in the
alumni backfield. The four
some led coach Emory Bellard’s
powerful wishbone attack dur
ing the late 1970s.
Dickey didn’t suit up in pads,
but he served as an on-the-field
coach by calling plays in the
huddle. Brothers led the
alumni in receiving with six
catches for 19 yards. Walker
completed 13 out of 24 passes
for 97 yards.
Edd Hargett was only two of
six through the air for eight
yards, but it was more exciting to
see him try to team up with his
favorite receiver, Bob Long,
than to look at his statistics.
Hargett threw an 80-yard
touchdown pass to Long to win
the 1967 Texas game and send
Texas A&M to the Cotton Bowl.
Hargett and Long seemed to
have trouble getting their tim
ing down. After all, it’s been 17
years. But they tried to find that
winning combination one more
time in the first half.
Hargett rolled left and Long
ambled only 40 yards down
field this time. Long looked
over his shoulder and saw the
ball on the way, but he couldn’t
out run the youthful legs of
Varsity defensive back Tony
Slaton. Slaton jumped and
made the interception.
The Aggie defense lived in
the alumni backfield all af
ternoon. Ray Childress and Co.
held Old Army to minus seven
yards rushing and allowed only
105 through the air.
Sherrill praised the play of
linebackers Ken Ford and
Johnny Holland. Both were
moved from their secondary
positions to increase the Aggies’
strength behind the defensive
front.
“Putting them inside was our
best move of the spring, but it
weakened us outside where we
had some depth,” Sherrill said.
Sherrill said the running
back positions are still up for
grabs.
The Aggies were strong at
the quarterback position, at
least until Saturday. Freshman
Craig Stump, redshirted last
season, completed three
seven passes for 30 vari
though most of his playing
came after Murray'
game.
Sherri
also expressed!
tern over the sepecialitj
play on Saturday.
“I’m not real excitedj
out punting, but our f
and kickoff guys will bee
lent,” he said.
Sherrill summed up tel
ings about the entire <
e ve n t s with one sopJ
statement to the reporters;]
press conference.
"1 think you can undi
why I’m not very happy id]
he said.
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Ten Nape! defies oddt
By DAVE SCOTT
Sports Writer
By the fourth quarter, his
maroon helmet was streaked
with the white paint from
butting heads witn the oppo
nent. Although the game was
just the Texas A&M Varsity-
Alumni football game, this
alumnus didn't shy away
from any contact.
As a matter of fact, he may
have been looking for some
extra contact. This former
student, who saw his last play
ing time on Kyle Field nine
years ago, had to squeeze all
his hits into four plays.
Four plays. Not much for a
30 year-old former All-Amer
ica and professional football
player. But for a survivor of a
near-fatal auto accident,
those four plays were nothing
short of miraculous.
Garth Ten Nape! played
weakside linebacker, along
side Ed Simonini, for Texas
A&M from 1972-1976, earn
ing All-America honors as a
senior and helping to lead the
Aggies to a 10-2 record and a
share of the S W C
championship. The Detriot
Lions made him their sev
enth-round draft choice and
Ten Napel made the team as
a reserve. He stayed in De
troit for two years before be
ing sold to the Atlanta Fal
cons.
In Atlanta, his third NFL
season ended on the opening
kickoff of the Falcons first
game when he suffered
knee injury
a
It was during the rehabili
tation that he met Andy
Spiva, a Falcon teammate
who also was recovering from
a knee injury. The two be
came close friends and it was
Spiva’s 280Z that the two
were riding in when the acci
dent happened.
Spiva was killed in the
wreck and Ten Napel was left
barely alive.
He was in a coma for three-
and-a-half weeks; no one ex
pected Ten Napel to live.
When he finally emerged
from the coma, no one ex
pected Ten Napel to walk.
He had suffered a double
concussion. His back had
been broken in three places,
bis hip and pelvis were bro
ken and his chest crushed.
His right lung, pierced from
a shattered ribcage, had filled
with blood and restricted the
flow of oxygen to his brain,
which had caused damage to
the area of motor control.
And he was partially par
alyzed on the right side of his
body.
When he emerged from
the hospital six months later,
the 6-1, 205-pound line
backer had shriveled to 150
pounds.
The physical therapy was
seemingly endless, but Ten
Napel pushed himself, doing
more than the doctors or-
dered. He went Ftomhif
Ix-d, to wheel chair, tow
ing. Saturday — five
and I 1 days after the at
— he made it backtoudii
on Kyle Field again.
”1 wanted to be
pendent person," Ten Nij
said of his deiermmalioitdi
ing rehabilitation. ‘Thau
im mam driving torce,"
T exas A&M’s head Iraki
Bills Pickard, made Tea-,'i
pel get two physicals ir
even allowing him to suit
Coach Jackie Sherrill di
want to lake any chances,
Ten Napel called Sherrilh
got permission to play fit
short yardage defenses.
Although it was Ten H
pel's first lime back on k
Field, it wasn’t his first relj
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in 1981 and finished his
gree in engineering tech™
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gie linebacker Mike
nave formed a dry-wall pail
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fx*l says is booming. In ri
lie credits the job with his!
ing able to play in the game
“This is the first year
!x*en physically fit enouel
play," Ten Napel said;
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has helped me."
The work may ini
helped, but it was prol
more a case of Garth Ten hi
pel helping himself.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ben
Crenshaw sank a curling 60-
foot putt on the 10th hole to
complete a string of three con
secutive birdies Sunday, and he
carried on to win the Masters by
two shots over Tom Watson.
Completing a memorable day
that began at 8 a.m. with the
windup of the rain-delayed
third round, Crenshaw blazed
his way to a 4-under-par 68 for
a 72-hole score of 11-under
277.
A 2-foot tap-in on the final
green assured Crenshaw his
first major championship in 12
years as a pro.
Watson, frustrated by three
bogeys in his bid to earn a third
Masters crown, salvaged a 15-
foot birdie hole on the final
hole for a 69 that gave him sec
ond place at 279.
It was his third runner-up
finish at Augusta National and
earned Watson $64,800.
“It was one of those days
when I never came close
enough to put any pressure on
Ben,” Watson said. “I made a
couple of bogeys early in the
day and was too far back to
catch up. I had to have some
mistakes, and Ben didn’t make
But Crenshaw siretchd
advantage to three shorn
the crushing 60-foot pulton
10th hole while runner-upi
took a bogey there, amlhe'l
in control the rest of the n'
earn a record Masters firsl
of $108,000.
Crenshaw faltered slighi
the 1 1th hole, where hepifi
up his first bogey of the roJ
hul he got that right back**
9-foot birdie putt on ihesfel
12th hole. The slight, bl*
Texan, enjoying his day ini
sun, added another birdie*1
a 20-foot putt on No. 15. I
Another bogey on thell
hole only narrowed hismaii
of victory.
None of the other contendi
were able to mount a challe*
one by one falling back I
Crenshaw protected hisleadl
Kite, who had hirdied I
18th hole Sunday mornin?|
take the third-round lead I
one stroke over Lye, collapl
with a triple-bogey on thet
yard 12th hole, sending his 1
shot into the water and d
three-putting.
Lye, meantime, in his«
Masters, double-bogeyed !
fifth hole and, after gettingd
back with birdies on Nos. 8*
9, he bogeyed the 10thandl
holes.
any.
Cil Morgan, improving his
score each day here, and Dave
Edwards, both of whom shot
67, shared third place at 280. It
was the first Masters appear
ance for the 27-year-old Ed
wards.
There was a four-way tie at
282 among Tom Kite (75),
Mark Lye (74), David Graham
(73) and Ronnie Black (68). Kite
had been the third-round
leader while Lye led after the
second round.
By capturing his first major
crown, Crenshaw finally be
came a part of the golfing his
tory he so much treasures. Pre
viously, the 31-year-old Texan
had five frustrating runner-up
finishes in major champion
ships, including a tie for second
with Tom Kite in last year’s
Masters.
Midway through the final
round there was a frantic log
jam near the top with seven
players bunched within four
strokes of Crenshaw.
Nelson, the U.S. Opened
pion, picked up his fourth8
die of the round on the I*
hole to stand only one shell 1
hind Crenshaw, but he
lapsed with double-bogeys
the 12th and 17th.
“I don’t know what toss';
Crenshaw said. “I’m a W
numb but it was certainly
clay. Like on No. 10, 1 ^
have hit 100 golf balls with
making that putt.
“I was determined all ^
long that I wasn’t going
go. Beginning with No. 13 1
only thing I could do wasp-
conservative.
“I hit my irons very well
week, my driver was goods
the putts started dropping
clay. As my caddie told me, j 1
keep hitting the fairways*
the greens,’ and that’s wh*
did.”
It was the 10th career 1 !
utnph for Crenshaw s"
boosted his earning
$1,853,183, placing him
cm the all-time list.