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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.
|(AP) — Former Texas football
coach Fred Akers was hired at
Purdue Wednesday, five weeks
after Leon Burtnett resigned un
der pressure amid the Boilermak
ers’ worst record in 44 years.
Akers, 48, signed a five-year
contract with a starting base sal
ary of $100,000, about $10,000
more than Burtnett received, of
ficials said.
Akers was fired two weeks ago
after the Longhorns finished 5-6,
their worst mark in 30 years. He
is the 31st head coach at Purdue.
Burtnett compiled a 21-34-1
record in five years.
The Boilermakers, hurt by in-
Ijuries and inexperience all sea
son, were 2-8 when Burtnett an-
Inounced his resignation a week
[before the final game against In-
Jdiana. Purdue won that game,
[but the 3-8 finish matched Burt-
I nett’s first season as the worst
since the Boilermakers went 1-8
| in 1942.
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year.
Akers coached the past 10
years at Texas, where his teams
compiled an 86-31-2 record and
appeared in nine straight bowl
games before this past season.
Former Texas Tech Coach David
McWilliams was hired last Friday
as Akers’ successor.
Akers played defensive back,
quarterback and placekicker at
the University of Arkansas from
1957-59.
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■AUSTIN (AP) — The Chicago
itk.us will pay $350,000 to former
Hiyer Brad Shearer in settlement of
his lawsuit alleging that the NFL
(teaiii failed to give him adequate
fare for an injured knee, attorneys
said Wednesday.
■The federal court trial of Shear
er’s lawsuit had been scheduled to
fbegin Monday. Attorneys for both
isides said the settlement agreement
was negotiated over the weekend,
■shearer, a University of Texas
[graduate who won the 1977 Outland
|Trophy as the nation’s standing line
man, was a Bears’ defensive lineman
froii 1978 through 1981, when he
was cut.
i Attorney Gil Gillam of Marshall,
representing Shearer, said the law
suit claimed Shearer’s career was cut
short by the team’s improper care of
a 1978 knee injury.
The lawsuit also raised anti-trust
questions about the way NFL teams
negotiate contracts with players.
Shearer, who is now involved in
Austin real estate, suffers 85 percent
disability in the knee, Gillam said.
Austin lawyer Gary Zausmer, rep
resenting the Bears, said under the
settlement the anti-trust claims made
by Shearer would be dismissed for
lack of evidence.
In agreeing to the settlement, the
Bears did not concede that Shearer’s
injury was improperly treated, he
said.
Aggies overpower Tigers 75-60
By Danny Myers
Assistant Sports Editor
It wasn’t really a close game, but it wasn’t really a
sound thrashing either as the Texas A&M basketball
team downed Texas Southern University 75-60
Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The Aggies, 3-1, were led by forward Winston Crite
with 16 points and guard Todd Holloway with 15
points. Center Jessie Spinner and forward John Trez-
vant dumped in 14 apiece. The top rebounder for
A&M was forward Mike Clifford with 11 to round out
a solid team performance.
Fred West and Marvin Harvey were the high-point
men for the Tigers, now 1-6, with 10 points each.
The Aggies exploded right off the bat to take a 16-0
lead five minutes into the game before TSU Head
Coach Robert Moreland called a timeout.
It proved to be a wise decision for Moreland because
A&M immediately cooled off, and the Tigers managed
to pull within 11 points at 38-27 by halftime.
The Aggies led most of the second half by six to 10
points, but they put together a spurt with about five
minutes left in the game that eventually would lead to
their 15 point margin of victory.
“The first 12 minutes, our defense was real good,”
A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf said.
“I substituted and killed our momentum, but we
played well defensively the first twelve minutes. Then
with eight to three minutes left in the game we looked
pretty good again.
“We haven’t put 40 minutes together but I doubt if
anyone has. There are some people ahead of us right
now, like TCU, Houston and Arkansas . . . but we’re
notorious slow starters anyway.”
The Aggies shot only 48.3 percent from the floor,
but held TSU to 34.7 percent.
A bright spot for A&M was the surfacing of Spinner
who did a formidable job at center, a position that has
been rather lackluster thus far in the season.
“I wanted to show people I do exist,” Spinner said.
“I knew I could do it.”
Forward Darryl McDonald also was impressive in
limited action with a couple of steals and Magic John-
son-like passing that brought cheers from the crowd,
even though his teammates were having problems
hanging on to the passes.
“Maybe they weren’t looking,” McDonald said. “If
I’ve got the ball, they better be looking for it.”
The Aggies’ next game is Sunday night at 7:30 in G.
Rollie White Coliseum where they will host the Univer
sity of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Metcalf said it will be a good opportunity for stu
dents to take out their frustrations of studying for fi
nals. This will be the Aggies’ last home game before a
six game road excursion beginning against Boston
University in the Kentucky Invitational in Lexington,
Ky.
A&M won’t have its normal court in G. Rollie White
Coliseum for practice until Sunday, however, due to
graduation.
“We tried to get the high school gym but they have
things going,” Metcalf said, “and we tried to get De
ware and they’re refinishing it. So we have to go up
stairs to a mini-gym. We need to work, but we probably
won’t get as much as we need.”
Photo by Tom Ownbey
A&M’s Paul Crawford eyes the basket as teammate Tadd Thomas (43) looks on
during Wednesday night’s 75-60 Victory over the Texas Southern Tigers.
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