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Tech QB’s
story pure
Hollywood
Tolliver sets passing
record in first start
Associated Press
Billy Joe Tolliver’s success story is
right out of central casting off the
Columbia Pictures’ lot in Hollywood.
The plot begins in a small West
Texas town of Boyd where Billy Joe,
who has a fiction writer’s name, is a
big man on campus at a tiny Class 2-
A nigh school.
Tolliver is redshirted his fresh
man year and draws plenty of “pine
time” early in the season on the
bench as a third-string quarterback.
Texas Tech Coach Jerry Moore in
serts him into the lineup out of des-
E ation in a lost Texas game and
y Joe throws a 62-yard comple
tion.
Tolliver earns a start against TCU
and promptly throws five touch
down passes for a Southwest Confer
ence record 422 yards, hitting 26 of
43 passes. The SWC record was 417
yards set by SMU’s Chuck Hixson
against Ohio State in 1968.
Tolliver broke or tied three school
records, including most TD passes in
a game in the 63-7 victory.
The performance earned him
The Associated Press SWC Offen
sive Player of the Week award.
Arkansas’ safety Greg Lasker was
The AP’s Defensive Player of the
Week. In a 20-14 victory over Bay
lor, Lasker intercepted a pass, broke
up two others, and had 10 tackles,
three of them solos.
“Coming from Boyd, this is pretty
darn exciting,” Tolliver said.
Tech gained 699 yards with the 6-
foot-1, 190-pound Tolliver at quar
terback, a record for a conference
game.
Offensive coordinator Tom Wil
son said, “Tolliver did some things
you just don’t see very often. He
worked hard for this opportunity
and it has paid off for him. He was
just great.”
Running back Ansel Cole caught
three touchdown passes over dis
tances of 20, 19 and 13 yards. Tolliv
er’s other scoring shots whent 65
yards to halfback Bouvier Dale and
25 yards to split end Bruce Perkins.
“I was impressed by the way he
moved the ball around,” Wilson said.
Battalion File Photo
Arkansas quarterback Greg Thomas leaped over year en route to a 28-0 Razorback win. Saturday
and ran through the Texas A&M defense last night, the Ags host the Hogs at 6:45 on ESPN.
Aggies, Sherrill
to ponder Hogs
before Cotton
By PETE HERNDON
Sports Writer
With the Southwest Conference
football season winding to a close for
Texas A&M, each game is bigger
than the last where the Aggies’ Cot
ton Bowl chances are concerned.
Saturday’s nationally televised
game (6:45 p.m., ESPN) against Ar
kansas at Kyle Field will be the big-
f est game of the season for the Ags.
he loser can just about kiss its New
Year’s Day travel plans to Dallas
goodbye.
But at Tuesday’s news confer
ence, Sherrill wasn’t worried about
where his team will spend the holi
day season, at least not yet.
A That’s something I’m not con
cerned about,” Sherrill said, making
an analogy. “I love ice cream. And
that’s like having a table full of ice
cream in the back of the room. I
can’t think about the ice cream. I
have to worry about how to get to
the table. If you start worrying about
those kinds of things, youll lose
sight of what you’re trying to accom
plish.”
One of the things Sherrill wants to
accomplish Saturday is staying as far
away as possible from Arkansas
safety Greg Lasker. After looking at
the game films over the last four
years, Sherrill had nothing but com
pliments for the Hog defensive back.
“He, himself, has dominated the
games for Arkansas,” Sherrill said.
Along with Lasker, Sherrill said
the Aggies need to control the Ra-
zorbacks’ defensive line. Although
Arkansas’ defensive front isn’t big by
SWC standards, it makes up for that
with speed.
Sherrill said a key matchup will be
A&M center Matt Wilson against Ar
kansas nose guard Tony Cherico.
“Those two players (Cherico and
Lasker) we’ll have to somehow win
half the battles with,” he said. “Texas
up front is more physical than we
are, and they had a nard time hitting
people (against Arkansas). Texas did
some good things (blocking), but
they couldn’t do it consistently.”
Sherrill said the Hogs’ speed nulli
fies any strength advantage the Ag
gies might have.
“If you put their feet in cement,
we would have the physical advanta
ge,” he gaid.
A&M will be hoping that Arkan
sas’ wide receivers will Be wearing ce
ment shoes Saturday. James Shmest
and Donnie Centers are two of the
best in the SWC, giving the Razor-
backs "flexbone” tnat extra punch
and the ability to burn the Aggies
they’ve been hurt the most — deep
passes.
“Arkansas is content not to make
the big play, even though they do,”
Sherrill said. “Defensively, we’re
going to have to not give up the big
play. ’
The Aggies have had a week off to
prepare for the Razorbacks and
aherrill said they have benefitted
from the extra time.
“The week off is a plus in a way,
because, otherwise, we could not
have played with a healthy team,” he
said.
Sherrill said offensive tackle Louis
Cheek, center Matt Wilson, wide re
ceiver Jeff Nelson, running backs
Anthony Toney and Roger Vick,
nose guard Sammy O’Brient, safety
Domingo Bryant and quarterbacK
Kevin Murray all needed the extra
time to recover from minor injuries.
Sherrill said there are some neg
ative aspects of having a week off as
well.
“The problem you have in an off
week is that you lose some of the
edge,” he said.
Arkansas has the advantage there
because it’s coming off of the big win
against Baylor.
And in a game like this one, Sher
rill knows every little advantage
counts.
“I kind of wish it would rain,” he
quipped, referring to the Aggies
ability to draw clouds as well as fans
to Kyle Field. “I think our players
have got webbed feet.”
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