Page 16/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 2, 1984
SWC standouts selected
in first round of NFL draft
United Press International
Mossy Cade and Russell Car
ter dueled for honors and pub
licity throughout their South
west Conference careers. But
the battle turned out to be a
standoff.
But on the day that their pro
fessional careers began, Cade
came out a narrow winner.
Cade, an all-America de
fensive back from Texas, be
came the first Southwest Con
ference player taken in the
draft Tuesday. The San Diego
Chargers took Cade as the sixth
player selected in the draft.
Four picks later Carter was
chosen by the New York Jets.
Cade and Carter were two of
four SWC players picked in the
opening round of the NFL
draft. The same number of
SWC performers selected in the
first round a year ago.
Arkansas defensive end Ron
Faurot was the 15th player
taken. Faurot went to the New
York Jets in what turned out to
be an early run on SWC players
by that team.
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Texas A&M linebacker Billy
Cannon was the surprise open
ing-round pick of the Dallas
Cowboys.
Two other potential first-
round choices from the SWC
opted for teams in the United
States Football League — offen
sive tackle Mark Adickes of
Baylor and defensive back
Alanda Smith of TCU.
Last year’s first-round NFL
picks from the SWC were Eric
Dickerson of SMU, Billy Ray
Smith of Arkansas, Gary An
derson of Arkansas and Gabe
Rivera of Texas Tech.
Anderson, however, wound
up in the USFL with the Tampa
Bay Bandits. Rivera was an out
standing prospect with the Pitts
burgh Steelers until he fell vic
tim to a tragic auto accident that
left him paralyzed.
While five SWC players went
in the second round a year ago,
only three were taken in the
same round Tuesday.Texas
linebacker Ed Williams by New
England, Texas offensive guard
Doug Dawson by St. Louis and
Baylor receiver Bruce Davis by
Cleveland.
Baylor running back Alfred
Anderson had been expected to
be a high pick, but he lasted un
til the third round, being se
lected by the Minnesota Vi
kings.
Anderson, however, was only
the second running back taken
in the draft. He was the second
leading ground gainer in the
SWC last year, averaging 104.6
yards per contest.
Other third-round picks
from the SWC included Texas
defensive back Fred Acorn by
Tampa Bay and TCU defensive
back Kyle Clifton by the New
York Jets. A pair of SWC play
ers went in the fourth round as
Indianapolis tabbed Texas de
fensive back Craig Curry and
Cleveland selected Rickey
Bolden, a tight end from SMU.
Kansas City also selected
Texas A&M linebacker Jeff
Paine and Aggie linebacker Jeff
Fuller went to San Francisco.
The 49ers also used a pick a
Southern Methodist defensive
tackle Michael Carter. Houston
went for Texas Christian line
backer Robert Lyles and Minne
sota picked Allen Rice, a Baylor
riming back.
Keith Guthie, a defensive
tackle from A&M, went to San
Diego in the sixth round while
Dallas took Houston linebacker
Eugene Lockhart in the same
round. Three SWC defenders
went in the seventh round as
Minnesota tabbed Texas tackle
John Haines, Buffalo called
Texas Tech back Stan David
and New Orleans went for SMU
tackle Mitch Willis.
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NEW YORK — Ignoring
the minimal talent available at
the offensive positions, NFL
clubs concentrated heavily on
drafting for their defense
early in the annual draft
Tuesday.
For the first time in a de
cade, no quarterback was se
lected on the opening round.
With the United States
Football League having taken
star quarterback Steve Young
of Brigham Young and Heis-
man Trophy winner Mike
. Rosier of Nebraska, New En
gland selected wide receiver
Irving Fryar of Nebraska.
Fryar’s teammate, guard
Dean Steinkuhler, was picked
second by Houston, efensive
players became the focus of
successive picks, and at one
point in the first round, 12
consecutive defensive players
were chosen.
“There’s an old theory that
says you’ve got to able to stop
them," said Jets’ Coach Joe
Walton. “Defense has been a
priority many times and this
year is no exeption.”
The first quarterback
picked was Maryland’s
Boomer Esiason, taken by
Cincinnati in the second
round. The only one running
back taken in the first two
rounds was Notre Dame's in
jury-plagued Greg Bell.
Buffalo took Bell in the
26th choice of the first round,
and it marked the first time
since the combined draft be
gan in 1967 that only one
running back was drafted in
the first round. It also was
only the second time since the
combined draft began that
NFL clubs failed to draft a
quarterback on the first
round. No quarterback was
chosen in 1974 in comparison
to last year’s opening round,
where six quarterbacks were
taken.
The New York Giants
made the first “open” selec
tion, taking Michigan State
linebacker Carl Banks. Phila
delphia then chose Penn
State wide receiver Kenny
Jackson, whom the Eagles
signed immediately.
Kansas City’s selection of
Pittsburgh defensive tackle
Bill Maas with the No. 5 was
the first in a string of 12 con
secutive defensive choices.
San Diego took defensive
back Mossy Cade of Texas
and Cincinnati, with its first
of three opening-round selec
tions, took linebacker Ricky
Hunley of Arizona.
The Colls, now in India
napolis, made Vanderbilt de
fensive back Leonard (x>le-
man their first of two
opening-round choices and
Atlanta took Rick Bryan, a
defensive tackle from Okla
homa.
The New York Jets used
their first of two opening
round choices to take Russell
Carter, a defensive back from
Southern Methodist, and
Chicago chose Florida line
backer Wilber Marshall.
Green Bay selected defensive
tackle Alphonso Carreker of
Florida State.
Minnesota took defensive
end Keith Millard of Wash
ington State and Miami,
which obtained Buffalo’s
first-round choice Tuesday in
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a swap for a first-rount n 5n’ s t a
two third-round picks, rfi lTieI ',ct
Oklahoma linebacker I bri'
Shipp. nlch-f
Using a choice aqi iei I ‘ u
from New Orleans, ihe^o
took Arkansas defensi»e^in et
Ron Faurot and Cmfifoned ‘ ,<
on a pick from New E% e i s,
made it a dozen straigfs^fiie ^
fensivc picks by namimKri’s ,e
Koch, a defensive eni; j of) aD ,nlt
Maryland. M e , r i vv.
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offensive player by ui£;
wide receiver Clyde Dif;
of Tennessee. Clew
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let ted guard Ron Sol
Maryland and Detroit n^
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Kansas City used tin jervance
round pick to take Workers
John Alt of Iowa and> Tuesday *
which lost two deit victory sigi
backs to the USFL, f eminist Par
Southern Illinois comera Dignita
Terry Taylor. Province’s
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Linsemon sparks Oiler victory
Edmonton heads to Stanley Co
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Ken Linseman scored a
power-play goal in the third pe
riod Tuesday night, sparking
the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-1
victory over the Minnesota
North Stars and a 4-0 sweep of
the Campbell Conference se
ries.
The Oilers advance to the
Stanley Cup finals for the sec
ond straight year, and will face
the winner of the Montreal-
New York Islanders series. The
Isles, who defeated the Oilers in
four straight games last year,
defeated Montreal 3-1 Tuesday
night to even their best-of-seven
Wales Conference series at two
games apiece.
At Bloomington, Minn., Lin
seman gave Edmonton a 2-0
lead at 7:38 of the third period
after the North Stars were pe
nalized for having too many
players on the ice. The Oilers’
center notched his ninth goal of
the playoffs by tapping in a re
bound of Jari Kurri’s shot.
Dino Ciccarelli scored Min
nesota’s lone goal at 10:35 of
the third period, firing a 25-
foot slapshot past Edmonton
goalie Grant Fuhr.
Kurri followed with an
empty-net goal, his 13th of the
playoffs, at 19:11 of the third
period after Minnesota pulled
goaltender Gilles Meloche for
an extra skater.
After a scoreless first period,
Edmonton defenseman Don
Jackson opened the scoring
with his first goal of the playoffs
at 4:58 of the second period.
Jackson deked North Stars’ de
fenseman Brad Maxwell and
poked the puck past a diving
Meloche.
Meloche, starting for the first
time since Game 2 of the open
ing series with Chicago, made
30 saves. Fuhr stopped 24 of 25
shots, including a point-blank
blast by Keith Acton in the sec
ond period.
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DALLAS — Dallas head
coach Tom Landry has made it
dear, since the team’s late-sea-
son fold last season, that the
1984 edition of the Cowboys
will need a catalyst.
Landry made that more than
obvious with the Cowboys’ early
selections in Tuesday’s NFL
draft. Dallas selected physical
players to become the catalyst
Landry spoke about.
After the Cowboys made
their second-round pick Tues
day, which turned out to be Col
orado defensive back Victor
Scott, Landry said:
“You want to pick players
that make an impact on your
team. And the way he (Scott)
hits means he has a chance to
have an impact on the team.”
The same could be said of
Billy Cannon, Jr., the aggressive
linebacker from Texas A&M
who was made the Cowboys’
No. 1 pick Tuesday.
One of the weakest areas of
the Cowboys the past few years
has been their special teams.
Despite the finding of instant
hero Bill Bates from the free
agent ranks last year, the Cow
boy special teams were far be
low the usual high standards set
for them by the team’s coaches.
“We’re looking for our spe
cialty teams to improve,”
Landry said before the draft.
“We need more players like
Bates. If we get a few more ag-
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shaw drove in two runs and the
Toronto Blue Jays capitalized
on six errors Tuesday night to
defeat the Texas Rangers 10-4.
Luis Leal (4-0) worked only
five innings, but allowed just
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