Monday, September 30, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11 Sports SCHULMAN THEATRES Entertaining The Bra/os Valley Since 1926 Aggies wait to hear own footsteps Photo by JOHN MAKELY Texas A&M running back Roger Vick (43) had a carries in Saturday’s 45-10 Tulsa win. The Ags’ career-best 134 yards and two touchdowns on 20 702 yards of total offense was a school record. By BRANDON BERRY Sports Writer By the fourth quarter of Texas A&M’s 45-10 victory over Tulsa, the Aggies were looking over their shoulders and hearing footsteps on the wet Astroturf. The pressure wasn’t being applied by the Golden Hurricane, however. The footsteps belonged to Curtis Dickey, George Woodard and the 1977 record book, as the ’85 Aggies amassed 702 yards of total offense, more than any A&M team in history. And the game was supposed to be a defensive struggle. “When we get it going like we had it today, you can expect some big plays to happen,” A&M quarterback Kevin Murray said. “And we had it going in all phases of the game.” The three “phases” of Aggie of fensive football consist of running, throwing and kicking. And the Ag gies proved that two out of three ain’t all that bad. “Our offensive linemen did a great job,” A&M Coach Jackie Sher rill said. “We’re getting a lot of confi dence.” Murray agreed, “Our offensive line was just great today. The guys up front were smashing them. The backs were just blowing up there and charging through them.” Aggie running backs blew and charged 61 times for 346 yards, led by Roger Vick’s 134 yards on 21 car ries. Ira Valentine added 60 yards on nine carries and Keith Woodside totalled 51 on seven. A&M running backs carried 31 times in the second half and only once did they fail to pick up at least four yards. The last drive of the game was spearheaded by freshmen James Howse and Matt Gurley. “When you have the good run ning game, it opens it up for the passing game,” Murray said. How open? The Aggies completed 15 of 23 passes for 356 yards. Kevin Murray, making his first start since injuring his ankle one year ago, accounted for a career-high 309 of those yards. “It (starting) meant a lot,” Murray said. “I’m not going to say I was doubting myself, but you never know if you’re going to come back until you get back out there. “There were times last year when I thought about giving up, but I just kept working and hoped (the ankle) would get better. It feels a lot better and I’m ready for some big plays.” Tulsa would testify Murray was more than ready Saturday night. On A&M’s third play of the third quarter, Murray flipped a swing pass to Vick, who darted 59 yards through the secondary for the touchdown. It was the longest scoring pass of Murray’s career and it didn’t travel in the air more than five yards. “He (Vick) made it pretty easy for me on that one,” Murray said. Jeff Nelson made quite a few- catches that were anything but easy. Nelson finished with eight recep tions for 130 yards. And when Nel son wasn’t catching them, Jeff Hol ley and freshmen Rod Harris and Tony Thompson were. “They (the Hurricane) have an awfully big defensive line,” Sherrill said. “We felt we needed to pass and we felt like Murray would give us a little better shot with our passing game. “We have no complaints with Murray or with Craig (Stump, A&M’s other quarterback).” Stump, whose statistics were over whelmed in Murray’s limelight, com pleted 3-of-4 passes for 47 yards in his first back-up duty in almost a year. The Aggie defense, meanwhile, had an impressive game after giving up an early touchdown on a five- yard TD run by Tulsa quarterback Steve Gage. The Hurricane rolled up 360 total ards, 171 belonging to running ack Gordon Brown, but couldn’t move the ball consistently in the Ag gies’ half of the field. “Our defense was put in a lot of spread out situations,” Sherrill said, “and when that happens, people are going to make some yards on you. But we did a good job of holding them in crucial situations. “We’re an awfully young team, please understand that.” Linebacker Johnny Holland led with 16 tackles, while Todd Howard had eight and Terrance Brooks seven. All together, the Aggie defense C ressured Tulsa into fumbling the all five times, four of which wexe recovered by A&M. See Aggies, page 12 $050 Pfau 3 located at 22t Southwaal Pfcwy. (Bahlnd Wandy •) •1st Show Sat & Sun. All Seats -KORA Family Nita-Mon. Schulman 8 -KTAM Family Nlta-Tues. 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