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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, December 11, 1985 Sports Rice still searching for coach Ags fight Broncs tooth and nail for 74-67 win A&M assistant coach on speculative list By BRANDON BERRY Sports Writer Associated Press HOUSTON — Texas A&M of fensive coordinator Lynn Ame- dee’s name has been mentioned for Rice University’s vacant head coachingjob. However, former Rice quar terback King Hill, who recently resigned as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints, has the support of some Rice alumni. “We’d like to see King come back,” a Rice source told The Houston Chronicle. “He’s a quar terback’s coach and Rice can’t overpower anybody. We’ve got to be able to pitch anti catch.” A search committee held an or- f anizational meeting Monday to egin a search to replace Watson Brown, who resigned Thursday to return to become head coach at Vanderbilt. Committee members refused to list coaches being considered. But the names of former Notre Dame Coach Gerry Faust and North Texas State Coach Corky Nelson have been mentioned along with Amedee and Hill. Hill was a quarterback for the Owls from 1955-57 and has spent the past 28 years in the pros as a player, scout and coach. Hill resigned as an assistant coach with the Saints two weeks ago when head coach Bum Phil lips stepped down. “We’ve got a lot of information to gather and I suspect we will meet late in the week to discuss what has happened,” a committee member said. “There is a sense of urgency, not only with the re cruiting season upon us but with the existing players.” Brown, who led the Owls to a 4-18 record in two seasons, has been interviewing members of his Rice staff for jobs with the Com modores. Recruiting coordinator Van Holloway is expected to join Brown’s staff. The 1,877 lucky fans in G. Rollie White Coliseum Tuesday night were treated to two sports for the price of one in Texas A&M’s 74-67 victory over the Pan American Broncos. An already rowdy game devolved to a knock-down, drag-out when ju nior forward Mike “Clobbering” Clifford spit his two front teeth at Pan American reserve guard Mi chael “The Animal” Anderson with nine minutes remaining in the game. Anderson had performed the im promptu oral surgery with a swing ing elbow about two seconds earlier. ‘Come on, ref — this is basket ball,” an irate fan yelled to the offi cials. But the rough play continued till the final buzzer signalled the Ag gies to be winners of the split deci sion bout. “This was an ugly-looking game,” A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf said of a contest in which the two teams com bined for 49 fouls. “But I’d much rather win ugly than lose pretty. “I thought the officiating was pre tty good considering the circum stances — this wasn’t an easy game to call. I think the caliber of the offi ciating was higher than the caliber of play, that’s for sure.” Clifford was taken to a local oral surgeon to have his teeth reinserted into their starting line-up. Before leaving the arena, however, he was assessed with a technical »foul and thrown out of the game. Anderson received the same punishment and retired to the Bronco locker room. At last report, his chompers were ap parently in place. A&M starting center Jimmie Gil bert received a gash on the top of his head earlier in the second half when Pan Am’s Willie James came down for a rebound with his mouth open. The method of assault was again a tooth. “You get a gash and a couple of teeth knocked out and your emotion changes from intensity to something else:” Metcalf said, “like anger. “We really didn’t play that smart out there tonight. I thought Jimmie (Gilbert — 12 points, 12 rebounds) was our most consistent player out there. In the second half, I thought Winston (Crite — 17 points, 9 re bounds) looked like his old self in the second half. "I thought Mike (“Gumby” Clif ford — 4 rebounds, 5 assists) looked good when he was in there. The word from the locker room is that they’ll probably be able to save the teeth. I didn’t have any dental hy giene courses, so I don’t what that means, but I know he won’t be able to play tomorrow (against Prairie View A&M) and I doubt he’ll be able to play the rest of the week (on Sat urday against Oral Roberts).” The loss of Clifford leaves Metcalf with just nine healthy bodies, two of them walk-ons and one a freshman. And reserve forward A1 Pulliam has recovered only 73 percent from a “ d i ' Senior guard Don Marbury led A&M scorers with 20 points. Todd Holloway added 11. Dr. Anderson led Pan American with 14 points, with guard Kevin Johnson close behind with 12. For ward Danl Williams and guard Ty rone Scott completed Pan Am’s dou ble figure-scorers with 10 points apiece. For the game, the Aggies outre- bounded the Broncos 50-35, outshot them from the floor 49 to 34 per cent, and from the line, 72 to 65 per cent. A&M led in turnovers 23-12 to keep the game close, however. “A lot of that (the turnovers) has to be mental,” Metcalf said. “I think that’ll improve. We passed the ball around pretty well early in the first half and I thought we had showed up really ready to play, but it went downhill from there.” A&M had its lead cut to one point twice early in the second half (at 36- 35 and 40-39) after leading by three at halftime (34-31). However, the Aggies responded by outscoring the Broncs 12-4 over the next five min utes to take a 52-43 lead with nine knee injury suffered in the off-sea son. "We’re really hurting right now,” Metcalf said. “We’re hurting when we’re well. We just don’t have a lot of depth and these injuries have just made the situation worse.” minutes remaining. After assorted teeth and combat ants had been picked up and thrown off the court, Pan American never came closer than five points the rest of the way. “We just have to get ready to play again tomorrow night (tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White against Prai rie View A&M) with what we have, and hope we don’t lose anyone else.” Metcalf said. Or, at the very least, any more blood, spit or teeth. Photo by JOHN MM'. Texas A&M’s Jimmie Gilbert winces as he goes up for a shot ig® Pan American Tuesday night. The Ags easwl past the Broncs,"Wi Calcagni to start for Arkansas in Holiday Bowl Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Fifth- year senior Mark Calcagni will re place sophomore Greg Thomas as the starting quarterback when the University of Arkansas takes on Ari zona State in the Dec. 22 Holiday Bowl. against Rice when Thomas was both ered by a knee injury. Calcagni’s only start of 1985 came “Mark played well against SMU and has been here five years,” said Arkansas Coach Ken Hatfield. “He deserves a chance to start. Both of them will play. Both have done a good job for us this year.” Calcagni said he was surprised to learn he would be the starter. “But I’m really excited about it,” he said. “It means a lot for me to start for the Razorbacks, especially in my last game.” Against Rice, Calcagni rushed for 160 yards in a 30-15 victory. During the year, he completed 27 of 47 passes for 561 yards and three touchdowns and ran 55 times for 300 yards. Thomas, who started 10 games, completed 33 of 72 passes For 554 yards and four touchdowns and rushed 118 times for 365 yards. played really well for us this® and he deserves this chance.” j "This is Mark’s last game,” said quarterback coach David Lee. “Greg’s got 24 more here. It’s not just a gift for Mark, though. He’s The Razorbacks, 9-2 forthtss son, begin Holiday Bowlpractitc Wednesday and Hatfield sails game plan would be incorpoffi immediately. “They’ve continued to wotkk during the break,” he said IRVINt the Cowb aclysm in against th< Eastern Di “We wc nati,” Lam York.” Landry cago and “when yoi | “We art cles. If yoi he said. Landry win nine g “It’s ha this team the year,” playing tl probably 1 Landry stand the “We ha Said. “Yoi jackgrous I 4 in a series Get a second opinion for lowest fares, says A&M Travel Service experts. Juniors, Seniors, Vets, Meds, and Grads We’ve become the largest travel agency in this area by helping travelers find the best possible schedule at the lowest possible fare. We continue to believe that competition is the best method of cost contain ment. But there are a few new things in the travel in dustry that will help you save money — wherever you go to arrange your travel. Get a “second opinion” whenever possible. 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