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Page 10/The Battalion/Friday, October 12, 1984
You-know-who
is in the hotseat
Don’t even think about what
the atmosphere will be like in this
bustline little city if somebody’s
football team doesn’t win this
weekend.
What an ugly, ugly sight it’ll be
next week if there’s not a “4”
where a “3” is now.
And putting a “2” where there
used to be a “1” will send some
body’s fans to the dentist because
they’ll gnash their teeth to nubs.
They’ll roam the streets rapping
their heads with stadium chairs,
in true Middle Eastern self-flag
ellation style. And they’ll tear
their hair and moan “I do and do
and do for you kids and this is the
thanks I get?”
And, as always, there will be,
well, you know, all that talk about
how much money you-know-who
is making and how there doesn’t
seem to be much to show for it.
Machinery will slowly begin to
squeak and grind into motion
when the big you-know-who in
Who’s Who, the Okie from Mus
kogee with the silver flattop,
starts looking at the column
where the “1” used to be and sees
that ugly “2.”
Right now, you-know-who’s
fans are balancing precariously
above the chasm of past football
mediocrity. This game tomorrow
will go a long way to help some
body’s fans jump over or fall in.
After all, if you-know-who
doesn’t beat Houston, who other
than Rice will they beat?
If somebody’s players aren’t
one chapped team because of all
of the things that have been said
about them this week and, more
than that, because of the way
they’ve played on the field, then
there’s something missing some
where.
Surely some of the digs hurled
TONY CORNETT
Sports Writer
at those guys like ‘‘I guess we
know who the worst 3-0 team in
the nation was” must have hit
home hard.
Seriously, if the Texas Aggies
don’t beat the you-know-what out
of the Houston Cougars tomor
row, then write this season off.
It will be another year full of
big dreams that turned to you-
know-what.
I’m sick of hearing about
youth, inconsistency, doing some
good things, having good prac
tices, being up for the game and
all the usual rot that goes with the
territory of covering Aggie foot
ball.
I want to see the team win —
BIG.
Houston Coach Bill Yeoman
said earlier this week that tomor
row night’s contest between the
Aggies and the Cougars is going
to be “severe.”
It’ll be plenty severe.
The Aggies will be playing on
turf where they never seem to be
able to win. And let’s not forget
that Houston is coming off of a
tidy win over Baylor. The big
“Mo” is already on Houston’s
side, even before the ball has
been teed up.
The Aggies need this win to
stay alive. The fans need the vic
tory almost as badly as the team
does. I really don’t see it happen
ing tomorrow, but if the Aggies
can stumble across a tremendous
wrinkle in fortune, where every
thing goes right for once, it just
might startle them into a success
ful season.
Series chokers
beat the odds
United Press International
In trivial pursuit of World Series
heroes and goats who were one and
the same person:
1. Babe Ruth was the New York
Yankees’ goat of the 1922 World Se
ries with a .1 18 batting average and
no homers in five games. But Ruth
was the hero in 1928 with a .625 av
erage and three homers in the Yan
kees’ four-game sweep.
2. Rookie Yogi Berra played so
poorly in the 194 / Series that he had
to be switched from catcher to the
outfield in the fifth game. He went
on to catch in 13 more World Series
and at his retirement held or shared
15 Series records.
3. Whitey Ford of the Yankees
holds the records for most World Se
ries wins and losses by a pitcher. He
won 10 games and lost eight.
4. Rogers Hornsby became the
toast of St. Louis when he was the St.
Louis Cardinals’ player-manager
against the Yankees in 1926; in addi
tion to managing, he knocked in
four runs in the seven-game Series.
In his other Series, playing for the
Chicago Cubs against the Yankees in
1929, he batted .238 and struck out
eight times in 21 at-bats.
5. Christy Mathewson won 373
regular-season games and often is
called the greatest pitcher in Na
tional League history. He won his
first three World Series games by
shutouts — against the Philadelphia
Athletics in the 1905 Series — and
then lost five of his next seven deci
sions in subsequent Series,finishing
with a .500 won and lost mark.
6. Don Larsen of the Yankees
pitched the only perfect game in
World Series history against the
Brooklyn Dodgers on Oct. 8, 1956.
In 1957, he appeared in two Series
games against the Milwaukee Braves
and yielded eight hits, five walks and
five runs in 9 2-3 innings.
7. Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn
Dodgers became one of the greatest
“goats” in Series history in 1952
when he went 0-for-21 against the
Yankees. He played in six other Se
ries during which he had a compos
ite batting average of .318, hit five
homers and drove in 21 runs.
8. Grover Cleveland Alexander
and Bob Lemon, both Hall of Earn
ers and World Series heroes in their
own right, share the Series record of
most runs allowed (11) by a pitcher
in a four-game Series.
9. Hall of Earner John McGraw,
who managed the New York Giants
for 33 years, was a managerial dud
in World Series competition. His
teams appeared in nine Series, win
ning three and losing six.
10. Cecil Cooper, playing in his
first World Series for the Boston
Red Sox in 1975, made one hit in 19
at-bats for an .053 average. He got a
second Series chance for the Mil
waukee Brewers in 1982 and batted
.286 with eight hits and six RBI.
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