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Aggies wait to hear own footsteps
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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
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