Monday, November 24, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
ggies humiliate Frogs
n record-setting day
By Loyd Brumfield
Assistant Sports Editor
ioys and girls, can you spell
T-O-T-A-L D-O-M-I-N-A-7-I-O-N?
|Rest assured the TCU Horned
after Texas A&M’s
Saturday at Kyle
Analysis
le
e
Frogs sure can
74-10 laugher
Field.
■It was a game
filled with of-
fense and defense aplenty, at least
■ A&M’s part, and it was a game
where many records were obliter-
att I along with the Horned Frogs.
Here’s a sampling:
A&M set a school record for to
tal offense with 705 yards, breaking
the old record of 702 against Tulsa
in : 985.
Hi The 74 points scored were the
most ever by an Aggie team since a
77 0 drubbing of Sam Houston State
University in 1925.
Hi A&M’s 38 first downs estab-
Hied a new school record and tied
tht Southwest Conference record
hell by Texas against Baylor in
19li8.
Hi A&M tight end Rod Bernstine
Eiscd Jeff Nelson as A&M’s career
reception leader with 98 catches.
A&M wide receiver Shea Walker
now has 94 catches to move into sec
ond place.
• Kicker Scott Slater tied Alan
Smith for the A&M single-season re
cord for field goals with 18. Slater
also is one away from the SWC re
cord held by UT’s Jeff Ward and Ar
kansas’ Steve Little and Bruce La-
hay.
And these were just the begin
ning. Quarterback Kevin Murray set
a school record for completions in a
season with 187, six more than Gary
Kubiak’s old mark in 1982, and
A&M increased its home-field win
ning streak to 14 games, the longest
in the nation.
All in all, 10 records were either
tied or broken.
The Aggies understandably
weren’t in the best of moods after
last week’s 14-10 loss to Arkansas
and they played like it was all TCU’s
fault. Things looked grim for the
Frogs after A&M’s first possession
when the Aggies promptly skipped
70 yards downfield through the
imaginary TCU defense in nine
SWC Football
Conference
All Games
W
L
T
Pts
OP
W
L
T
Pts
OP
Texas A&M
6
1
0
263
114
8
2
0
344
184
Baylor
6
2
0
221
146
8
3
0
304
198
Arkansas
6
2
0
206
114
9
2
0
303
142
Texas Tech
5
3
0
188
173
7
4
0
254
248
SMU
5
3
0
185
162
6
5
0
245
282
Texas
4
3
0
167
126
5
5
0
226
229
Rice
1
6
0
116
255
3
7
0
171
317
TCU
1
7
0
156
299
3
8
0
259
376
Houston
0
7
0
67
180
1
9
0
112
253
plays for the first of 10 A&M touch
downs. Slater kicked the first of nine
extra points, which is another school
record by the way, and A&M was on
its way.
After the starters pushed TCU all
over the field by establishing a 53-0
lead, A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill let
the backups have some fun and they
had the time of their lives, account
ing for 21 points on the day. Backup
running back Melvin Collins led all
rushers with 110 yards and two
touchdowns, and James Howse had
95 yards on seven carries. Reserve
flanker Chris Ford only caught one
pass, but it was a big one, good
enough for a 50-yard touchdown
gallop.
After all this was over, the ques
tion of the day was: Why did A&M
run up the score?
“We didn’t,” Sherrill said.
“They didn’t,” TCU Coach Jim
Wacker said.
“We could have scored 90, maybe
100,” A&M quarterback Kevin Mur
ray said.
Ever since the supposed feud be
gan between Sherrill and Wacker,
A&M couldn’t score against TCU
without someone moaning about
cheap shots. Last year’s “onside kick”
against the Horned Frogs with A&M
leading 46-0 fanned the flames and
a couple of things that happened
Saturday did nothing to ease suspi
cions.
For one thing, Sherrill left Mur
ray in the game long after the Aggies
had established a wide margin.
“I was trying to get his (Murray’s)
statistics up,” Sherrill said. “I kept
him in there so he could get 300 or
400 yards.”
Murray echoed Sherrill’s remarks.
“I wanted to play in the second
half,” he said. “It’s boring on the
sidelines. I’d rather be in there try
ing to make things happen.”
He made things happen all right,
much to TCU’s dismay. Murray
Photo by Doug LaRue «■
Frogs by the Aggies. Collins led all rushers with J-
110 yards on 20 carries. He also scored two TDs.
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