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Lombardi
Associated Press
HOUS TON — The Kith annual
Lombardi Award, symbolic: of the
nation's top collegiate lineman, will
be presented Thursday night to one
of four players: Oklahoma's Tony
Casillas, Oklahoma State’s Leslie
O'Neal, Boston College's Mike Ruth
or Michigan's Mike Hanunerstein.
The trophy, a -40-poimd block of
granite^ is presented in honor ol the
late Vince Lombardi, former head
coach of the NFL's Green Bay Pack
ers. Lombardi died in September
H)7() ol c ancer.
, Hammerstein, (i-ldot-B, 265
pouncls, led the Wolverines in
tackles lor losses this season with 22
for minus I It) yards. The senior de
fensive end also added 73 tackles,
had nine c|uarterback sacks Tor 53
yards in losses, one tumble recovery
and one interception,
j Hammerstein said his being con
sidered Tor the honor “is just a re-
llection of our defense this year. We
were first in just about every cat-
egorv. I'm honored to represent our
team here."
H O'Neal, a (>-4, 249-pound senior
defensive tackle, had 93 tackles, nine
(juat terbac k sacks and 15 tackles f or
losses to kev the Cowboys' defense.
■ “I couldn't say I'd be displeased if
1 don't win," O'Neal said. “Being one
of the final lour is good considering
all the schools involved.''
| Ruth, a f>-2, 2()8-pound senior
nose guard, had 12b tackles for Bos
ton College, 12 quarterback sacks.
One interception and two forced
Humbles.
■ “The attention has waned (since
the T.agles were 4-8 this year alter
going to the Cotton Bowl at 9-2 last
season), but you don't play football
for attention, you play for other
things,'' Ruth said.
fc Casillas, b-3, 280, has had 35
tac kles, Tour for losses and two quar
terback sacks in seven games as a se
nior for the Sooners this season.
I The annual Lombardi dinner is
sponsored by the Downtown Rotary
Club of Houston. Proceeds from the
dinner go to the American Cancer
Sonetv for research.
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Ags hope win is in ‘Cards’
A&M cagers try hand at Lamar's winning tradition
Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPER
A&M’s Winston Crite (21 in white) goes into tonight's Lamar game
as the Ags’ second-leading scorer, averaging 13.3 points a game.
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s basket
ball team will travel to the Hous
ton Summit tonight Tor the sec
ond time this season. And Tor the
second time this season, (lie La
mar Cardinals will prove Hous
ton to lie far f rom a “neutral'' site.
Lamar and A&M both played
in the fust round of the NI T Big
Apple Tournament in the Sum
mit on Nov. 21. Both teams lost in
the closing seconds of their games
to nationally-ranked opponents
— A&M by having a comeback
bid fall three points short against
Alabama-Birmingham, 7 1 -b8,
and Lamar dropping a live-point
decision to eventual NTT cham
pion Duke, b5-b().
But the Cards, who hail from
Beaumont, were well supported
in the stands — unlike the Aggies.
The vast majority of the 2,200 in
attendance were wearing crimson
(a much brighter red than do-or-
die maroon).
At the conclusion of the A&M-
UAB game, one Cardinal fan
yelled, “Enough for the warm-up
game — bring on a real team. Co
Cardinals!”
“They (the Cards) will be well-
supported down there, there’s no
doubt about it,” A&M Assistant
Coach John Thornton said. “We
know that they've already char
tered live buses to take some of
their students down to the game.”
So, how did a town with an oil-
based economy and a French her
itage become so slam-dunk, F.ast
Coast basketball crazy?
“ Flieyhe winners,” Thornton
said of the Cardinals. “They’re a
very confident team because
they’re coming off a good season
last year and they've got a win
ning tradition when it comes to
basketball.”
That tradition includes seven
straight 20-win seasons, six
Southland Conference titles in
the past eight years and eight
straight post-season tournament
invitations.
In the span of the past eight
years, most of which have been
under (lie tutelage of former Fd-
die Sutton assistant Pat Foster,
Lamar lias beaten the likes of Ala
bama, Missouri, Oregon State
and 1 louslon.
And, already this season, the
Cards have knocked off Villa-
nova, last season's national cham
pion.
“They’re a very solid team,"
Thornton explained. “They
jumped off to a 17-3 lead against
Villanova and no one on their
team had more than four points.
They’re a very well-balanced
team.
“What stands out at you in
looking at their films is that they
have no glaring weaknesses.
They've got good inside people,
great depth, adequate ball han
dlers and they can shoot from the
perimeter. They're a lot like us in
that they play both a zone (de
fense) and a man-to-man.
“They played Duke closer than
anyone else in the (NTT) tourna
ment and I'm very impressed
with them. They look better to
me than Alabama-Birmingham.”
The Ags will lace the Cardinals
without the services of back-up
center David Thompson and
back-up point guard Cary Lewis.
Both have hand injuries.
The rash of injuries, which has
seen five different players miss
practices or games, has further
depleted A&M’s bench strength,
which was already a question
mark going into this season.
“ The guys we have in the start
ing line-up don’t mind playing
the extra minutes,” Thornton
said. “ The only thing that bothers
its is that we can't play as freely
sometimes as we'd like because of
possible fold problems.
“To win this game we need out
starting five to play well -— and I
think they will. But what we really
need is for one or two guys on the
bench to come in and give us
some good minutes.”
I he Aggies will start the game
with Jimmie Cilbert at center,
Winston Crite and Mike Clifford
at the forward positions and
Texas A&M Coach Shelby Met
calf (right) takes his 2-1 Aggies
to the Houston Summit tonight
to battle the Lamar Cardinals.
Todd Holloway and Don Mar-
bury at the two guard spots.
Marbury leads A&M scorers
with an average of 2(>.7 points per
game.
But, when Card Ians look at
this vear's team, their eyes are
most often drawn to the “Round
Mound of Bank-shot and Re
bound,' James Gulley.
Gulley defies the laws of grav
ity and perpetual motion by being
deceptively quick around the bas
ket. “Deceptive” considering his
b-foot-8, 290 pound f rame.
“They’re a hard team to de
fense inside,” Thornton said.
“They've got a (i-(foot)-ll kid
coming off the bench (Greg An
derson) and Todd and Gulley in
side. Gulley’s a little overweight,
hut he's quick. And we’ve got to
try and guard against McCauley
getting hot f rom the outside.
“What we have to do is take it
to them offensively — we know
they’re going to do it to us. We
can’t af ford to play conservatively
and get behind them.
“ Our guys like the challenge oi
playing teams like Lamar."
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