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A&M hosts the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Saturday at 6 p.m. Schedule has taken toll on Tulsa By PETE HERNDON Sports Writer Texas A&M and Tulsa will both have some cases of “injury- itus" when the newest member of the Southwest Conference takes on the Aggies this weekend. Well, Tulsa may not be an offi cial member of the SWC, but you can’t tell by looking at its sched ule. Going into Saturday’s 6 p.m. kickoff, Tulsa has already beat Houston (31-24) and lost to Texas Tech (21-17 when Tech threw a touchdown pass in the last 20 seconds) and Arkansas (24-0). That 1-2 mark is better than the Aggies did against the same three SWC teams last season. However, Tulsa Coach Don Morton said, by way of telephone hook-up during Tuesday’s news conference, that playing three “tough” SWC teams in a row has taken its toll on the Golden Hur ricane. Injuries have sidelined four Tulsa defensive starters. Tulsa’s starting inside lineback ers, Xavier Warren and Tony Bu ford, are out for the season, both suffered a broken leg. Defensive tackle Kevin Lilly, an honorable mention All-American in 1984, and cornerback Jesse Morrow will also be miss Saturday’s game due to injuries. “Our best (defensive) players will be (back) in Tulsa Saturday night,” Morton said. This leaves the Hurricane’s first year coach anything but over-confident about facing the Aggies potentially explosive of fense. A&M is currently 20th in the nation in total offense, with a 419-yard per game average. “I was surprised how well they (A&M) execute their passing of fense,” Morton said. “We are very vulnerable against a passing team.” Morton said the Tulsa’s de fensive injuries would only add to that. . “We like to (show) as many (de fensive) changes as possible,” he said. “(We) use some man-(to- man) and some zone coverage and put some pressure on (the quarterback) and then back off. “(But because of the injuries) we’re not going to be able to do as many things as we’d like to.” Although Morton’s “injury- itus” may be getting close to crit ical, the diagnosis for A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill is simply “take two asp’rin and wait ’til mdrning.” Sherrill said the Aggies’ injury list is a little longer than he’d like. The players that Sherrill said have gotten “a little banged-up” include running backs Anthony Toney and Roger Vick, offensive linemen Louis Cheek and Jerry Fontenot, wide receiver Shea Walker and linebacker Johnny Holland. However, none of them missed practice Tuesday. The most serious of the Aggie injuries belongs to 378-pound, reserve offensive tackle Marshall Land. Sherrill said Land has not “progressed the way he should have,” while recovering from a knee injury suffered in practice the week before school started. Land has been sent to Dallas to get a second opinion to find out if there’s something the A&M med ical staff may have missed. “Marshall’s either going to have to push himself if nothing else is wrong,” Sherrill said, “or, if there is, possibly have it scoped (arthroscopic surgery). If it’s scoped, he’ll be out six to eight weeks.” So, with the exception of Land, A&M is basically healthy. Tulsa, however, isn’t — on de fense. Tulsa’s offense is healthy, although it looked pretty sick in its 24-0 loss to Arkansas last week end. But the A&M defense still might have trouble with Tulsa, since its the first veer offense the Aggies have seen this season. Sherrill said the Tulsa game is important for the Aggies defensi vely because A&M’s next four op ponents — Texas Tech, Houston, Baylor and Rice — all run option oriented offenses. Sherrill said the Aggies have been studying game films of TCU, whicn also runs the veer, to help prepare for Tulsa. But Tulsa’s Morton said there are some differences between his veer and TCU’s version. “To the Aggie fans there is not going to be much descrepancy,” Morton said, “but the coaches will see the the difference.” i* UP BIG SAVINGS! 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