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Monday, October 27, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 Sports e om A&M shreds Rice behind record-setting Murray ihose people art J,! with somethimi l; By Danny Myers Sports Writer Even without starting linemen Alatt Wilson and Marshall Land, ^ to the Nate y quarterback Kevin Murray had lisin, the N0'l JK nou gh time to |)lay eenie-meenie- drug abuse, P ar - ,; jjgrinie-moe with ■ his receivers Analysis Saturday il all of'thislosiii.: hat is totally pipr alcohol)." o emphasized lit hat since ISSSJtnl ive increased!! d 256 percentinli won general fej if smoking is ih i our society ’ exas A&M thrashed Rice, 45-10. Perhaps it wasn’t a wise decision y the Owls, but they continuously blitzed during the game, and Mur- ay continuously picked apart the ice secondary to finish with 215 ards passing, despite being pulled i the third quarter for comrade raig Stump. Before making his exit, though, at is the most;-- j M urra y threw career touchdown aid. r'llo. 41, making him the all-time 10 spoke out oh ’T Southwest Conference leader, pass- usage. ' tng A&M’s own Edd Hargett and tty good data Southern Methodist University’s 50 percent o!'B huck Hixson, voided ifpeoplt kk He also became A&M’s all-time he said. p gassing yardage leader and moved d he believestk I. if 110 fifth in SWC history with 5,542 dock to when cXfreer yards, making Hargett step jjside once again. the young have I “ft’s always nice to set records but you have to remember that records made to be broken,” Murray i lam pattern' fford the t hat weren't ammi .... “You just have to keep it all m per- ective. I’m just happy we won. I asn’t really up for the game, but I definitely into it.” K 11 setting the new standards made : ^Burrav the star of the offensive ; Blow, then there were surely some if Supporting actors worth taking note lances i v , , Efi Roger Vick powered over the syn- | thetic terrain for 1 15 yards and one . i touchdown on 16 carries. ■ Keith Woodside gained 72 yards 1U u ' ‘' and a TD on only five totes. He also vim and nous f t y iree receptions for 20 yards. hl 'j “ r ^ I Melvin Collins, a pleasant surprise it xiunnu foi A&M, gained 82 yards on just * >. ok-'Cc car , ies including a fourth- oustontsope quarter 44-yard touchdown run. n people, hr Overall, the Aggies piled up 295 ice its current[cJ y au | s on t [ ie r un and 526 yards total cities.will p B | fense make a L <’ I J be Owl’s lumbering ground at- e said Place ta<k, on the other hand, could only .ton will geh ,| g rm d Qu t ti() yards averaging 1.6 > bigandpeoplt'^fcjs a pop. But with a respectable •suit, anyplace O- f n<d ’. >-•<.. ■' / t of metropc: '* i,i • an < i tied room com' t’hoto by Tom Own bey Texas A&M’s Lance Haverda (31) signals touchdown as Aggie freshman running back Melvin Collins (32) races into the end zone on this 44-yard run. A&M’s 45-10 triumph over Rice Saturday was its 13th straight vic tory at Kyle Field, one shy of the all-time Kyle Field win streak. 230 yards passing, Rice totaled 290 yards offensively. “We gave up over 400 yards last week so I’m satisfied with 290,” said Aggie linebacker Todd Howard. A&M head coach Jackie Sherrill said he saw improvement in a lot of areas. “We were better today than we were last year, and Rice was better today than they were last year,” he said. One area that is certainly im proved over last year is the kicking game. Scott Slater now has hit 15 of 18 field goals and is perfect inside 40 yards. He drilled three through the uprights against Rice including a ca reer long 51-yarder. Slater said he felt like he might get a chance at a long one with the wind blowing the way it was in Kyle Field. “I kicked one before the game which was 65 yards, so I felt pretty confident on the way out,” he said. “The very first game of the year I was nervous, but since then I’ve really been confident and I know I can kick the long ones.” The game was virtually over at halftime. The first quarter ended with the score knotted up at 3-3, as both teams exchanged field goals even though A&M dominated statis tically. In the second quarter, however, the Aggies lit up the scoreboard with 21 points. Vick capped a four-play, 53-sec ond drive with a 4-yard touchdown plunge. Then, after a Rice punt and a se ries of Murray passes, right guard Jerry Fontenot made a good block that sprung Keith Woodside for a 33-yard touchdown. Finally, on the Aggies’ next pos session, Murray threw a 26-yard re cord-setting strike to flanker Rod Harris to break the game open at 24- 3. After a couple of Slater field goals in the third quarter made the game 30-3, the second- and third-string teams went the rest of the way for A&M. “As a whole, you look back at the game, and our game plan was to play a lot of people, and we did it,” Sher rill said. “In a game like this, if you leave your first team in there, it doesn’t really serve any purpose.” Mtics andcoltaft (ontinue to pi" that's not all gw iH universities art ■■ r require a vasaff • improve, g 37 public anil iif' ..is colleges amlar* e eight lav tciawfe si hools, IdsckiP * 64 separate b#) nd over ts, he said, isn't capable oisl 1 large number is muchlonjjer.jf;, i we're goinpiS'l' i want to | me toTexas.W' 1 I •vant to beak':-®* ’mversityol)lBi| •e Ashby, page 111 Freshman & Sophomores Oct. 6-Oct. 31 edSale ier28 Off low availab! ►n fine appall ittondowns. If "A Or* £age and k rs, scarves, t included, ■y evening til 8p I (Next to *• 693-oOOf Freshmen and sophomore photos for the 1987 Aggieland will be taken from Oct. 6 until Oct. 31 at AR Photography, 707 Texas Ave., across from the A&M Polo Field.