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The Texas A&M volleyball
team, currently sporting an 11-19
overall record, will try to stay on
the winning track in Southwest
Conference play when it takes on
Baylor tonight at 7:30 p.m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
Revenge will figure into the
Lady Aggies’ plans. They were
beaten by the Bears in four games
in Waco earlier in the season.
Baylor’s win was only its second
win over A&M in 21 meetings.
A&M is coming off a 1-1 per
formance in the LSU Classic in
Baton Rouge, La., after defeating
Tulane and losing to Tennessee.
A&M Coach A1 Givens was op
timistic about the rest of the sea
son.
“We’re 1-0 in the second half
of the conference race,” he said.
“We know we can’t win the con
ference, but we could definitely
be a spoiler. We’ve said all along
that we’re not going to lose to the
same team twice.”
All eyes turn to Wilson when heat is on
By Cray Pixley
Reporter
No one thinks much about a
punter unless it’s fourth down and
the Aggies are kicking from their
own end zone, but when that time
comes all eyes are on Texas A&M’s
Sean Wilson.
“I get a lot of heat from some of
the offensive linemen about being
just a punter, but when the offense
hasn’t moved the ball they suddenly
realize who will be getting the ball
out of our territory and down the
field,” Wilson said.
“The linemen are out there play
ing hard and taking hits the entire
game,” he said. “I come in two or
three times and usually don’t get any
hits.”
Although he doesn’t often get rec
ognition, Wilson said his teammates
congratulate him when he has a
good punt.
“They will come up to me and say
‘Good job’ after I’ve punted,” he
said.
Wilson, a red-shirt freshman, was
an all-state punter from Huntsville
High School and started his college
career against Louisianna State Uni
versity this year.
It would be easy to say Wilson
comes by his punting abilities natu
rally. His father, Jerrel Wilson,
punted for the Kansas City Chiefs
for 16 years.
“My father introduced me to foot
ball, and I went to training camp
with him every year when I was
young,” he said. “I grew up in an at
mosphere of football and began
playing in little league.”
Wilson said his father never
coached him but that he learned
from watching him play.
“It really helped having my dad
show me the kicking game first
hand,” he said. “In my eyes he was
definitely the best punter.
“I don’t feel competative with my
dad; I only try to go out and kick the
ball better than I did the last time,”
Wilson said. “Everything I have
comes from my dad, and when I
play it is a part of him out there on
the field.”
Wilson’s parents have been to ev
ery game this year except for the one
against Texas Tech.
Wilson said he’s sure his father is
more nervous watching him play for
A&M than he was when he played
for the Chiefs.
“My dad tries to act calm but I
Sean Wilson
know he is more nervous and ex
cited than I am,” he said.
After the LSU game, Wilson said
he was over the pressure and ner
vousness of playing for A&M. He
said he tries to think about his job —
not the 11 men coming at him to
block the punt.
“I was nervous for my first college
punt but now that is over,” he said.
“Sometimes I feel like my feet never
touch the ground when I’m out
there on the field. I love the excite
ment of playing football.
“I think it’s thrilling to go out and
play in front of 60,000 people. At
that moment everyone is looking at
me because I’m kicking the football.”
Wilson said he hadn’t ever been
on a losing team and is afraid of los
ing games.
“The only pressure I feel now is
because I want A&M to win.” he
said.
Wilson, a mechanized agriculture
major, is not sure what he would be
doing now if he hadn’t played foot
ball.
“I would have been in college but
not at a large university like A&M,”
he said. “Football helps me keep a
focus on college.”
The 6-foot, 200 pound Wilson
was recruited by the University of
Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M
before committing to A&M.
“I knew I wanted to go to college
in Texas and Head Coach Jackie
Sherrill really caught my attention,”
he said.
“I respected Coach Sherrill from
the start and do so even more after
playing for him these two years.”
After eight games and 40 punts,
Wilson has settled in nicely to his job
as A&M’s punter. He’s averaging
41.2 yards with a 61-yard long punt.
“I don’t feel as if I have had my
great punt yet,” Wilson said. “I just
keep working and trying to do better
each time.
“I get satisfaction out of making a.
good punt just as a receiver gets sat
isfaction out of making a good
catch.”
Wilson is not sure about his post
college career but he does have three
more years at A&M to contemplate
his future.
“My father is a hunting and fish
ing guide in Mexico, and I wouldn’t
mind doing that as a career after col
lege.”
Wilson said he can’t help but think
about playing professional football.
“If you begin playing in little
league and stick with football
through college, it’s natural to look
toward the NFL,” the punter said.
“Every player who is committed to
college level football thinks about
going professional,” Wilson said.
“I would like to reach the profes
sional level but I know there are only
28 starting jobs at my position in the
world; we all play to reach the top
level.”
Dallas’ 33-24 comeback victory over Giants
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IRVING (AP) — After a trial se
paration, the Dallas Cowboys’ fans
love their team again.
Showing the heart of their early
1970s championship clubs, the Cow
boys rallied from a 10-point deficit
in the fourth period to defeat the
New York Giants 33-24 on Monday
night.
The sixth Giants’ loss dealt per
haps a fatal blow to the Super Bowl
king’s playoff hopes.
Dallas Coach Tom Landry on
Tuesday gave most of the credit to
the fans, who had come down hard
on the regular players during the
24-day NFL strike.
“The crowd was as loud as I’ve
ever heard it in Texas Stadium in
the fourth period,” Landry said.
"Normally I don’t notice a crowd.
But that one was loud. It had the Gi
ants jumping offsides because they
couldn’t hear the signals.”
Landry said his team had an old-
fashioned pep rally in the locker
room after the game.
“It was a good feeling,” he said.
“They hadn’t had a good feeling in a
long time. They were excited be
cause you don’t usually come back to
beat World Champions in the fourth
quarter.”
Club President Tex Schramm
said, “It was an amazing thing. The
crowd came to cheer when we
thought they would boo.”
Landry said, “It surprised me. I
think (linebacker) Jeff Rohrer (who
had called Dallas fans ‘stupid’) was
the only one who caught it. The
cheers were a welcome thing.”
Roger Ruzek’s four field goals in
the fourth period tied an NFL re
cord shared by Caro Yepremian of
Detroit (1966) and Curt Knight of
Washington (1970) for field goals in
one period.
It was the most ever in an NFL
game in the fourth period. Yepre
mian and Knight’s field goals came
in the second quarters of their
games.
“Ruzek did just a remarkablejob,”
Landry said. “Everything he hit went
right down the middle. He was per
fect.”
The Cowboys also entered the re
cord books on the negative side.
Dallas’ 26 yards rushing was a club
all-time low and Tony Dorsett
gained only 3 yards, his career low
for one game.
“Danny White did a great job of
passing the ball because we had no
running game at all,” Landry said.
“The Giants have a great run de
fense and our offensive line had two
rookies in it. We couldn’t run at all.”
Landry said the Giants gave the
impression they had the game won
after Phil Simms hit Lionel Manuel
with two touchdown passes for a 10-
point lead.
“They (the Giants) relaxed, you
could see ’em kind of back off,”
Landry said. “Then when we got
going they couldn’t turn it around
again.”
Landry said the victory keeps the
Cowboys in the hunt for a wildcard
spot at 4-3 behind Washington’s
NFC-leading 6-1 record.
“It’s such an unpredictable year
that I believe 9-6 might get a playoff
spot,” Landry said. “We might have
a playoff team if our defense keeps
moving. And we’ve got to run the
ball.”
Longhorns’ Hagy, Norris
win top conference honors
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas safety
John Hagy’s defense was the
team’s best offense against Texas
Tech, scoring once on a pass in
terception and once on a punt re
turn as the Longhorns held onto
first place in Southwest Confer
ence football.
For his performance, the 195-
pound senior from San Antonio
was named the Southwest Con
ference defensive player of the
week.
Texas’ Darron Norris, running
at tailback and fullback, gained
110 yards on 14 carries in Texas’
41-2/ victory and was chosen of
fensive player of the week over
teammate Eric Metcalf. The ju
nior tailback returned after treat
ment for a bruised hip to throw a
touchdown pass and score on a
27-yard run.
Hagy, a senior, is the first
Longhorn defensive player to
score twice in one game, and now
holds the school record for touch
downs in a single season by a de
fensive player with three.
Metcalfs injury put Hagy in
deep punt-return formation for
the first time, and he responded
with a weaving 33-yard scoring
run in the third quarter.
Metcalf said, “I was watching
him from the bench, saying, ‘Cut,
cut.’ Every time I said, ‘Cut,’ he
cut.”
Hagy’s first score came on a 20-
yard run with an intercepted pass
midway through the first quarter.
“Being a defensive player, you try
to get the ball in the end zone ev
ery time you get a chance to touch
it,” Hagy said.
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