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Sports
Crucial SWC game on tap
for ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ team
By Doug Hall
Assistant Sports Editor
Before the college football sea
son even began, Saturday’s Texas
A&M vs.-Arkansas showdown was
expected to be the Southwest Con
ference game of the year.
At stake
for the winner,
went the com- Analysis
mon thought,
would be a trip
to Cotton Bowl and a Top 10 rank
ing.
Even for the loser the stakes
looked promising. In all likelihood,
the two teams would enter the game
with no more than one loss. A defeat
therefore, probably would not knock
the loser out of the Top 20 or a the
hunt for a promising bowl bid.
Interestingly enough, the game
has materialized to be a classic con
ference matchup — but not in the
same sense that many had expected.
The 6-2 Aggies currently are
ranked No. 19 while the 7-2 Razor-
backs are No. 20. Neither team will
move into the top 10 with a victory,
but the loser will surely drop out.
Even for the winner of the 2
p.m. game, a Cotton Bowl bid is not
locked up. A third loss for either
team, however, is a sure way to win a
trip to a minor bowl. And the Aggies
still have two tough games remain
ing.
Arkansas started the season
with strong victories over Mississippi
and Tulsa, despite having to rotate
quarterbacks Greg Thomas and
Quinn Grovey. Thomas has not
been completely healthy all season
and Grovey went down during last
week’s Baylor game.
Head Coach Ken Hatfield had
the optimism flowing in the hills de
spite an untested secondary and a
limited offensive scheme. The pes
simists returned however after
Jimmy Johnson’s Miami Hurricanes
trounced the Razorbacks 51-7.
Since then, the season has been
up and down for Hatfield. The
Hogs bounced back to defeat an im
proving Texas Christian team and
an unpredictable Texas Tech squad.
Then, in the midst of recovery,
the Hogs lost a heartbreaker to
Texas 16-14 and have struggled in
victories over Baylor and Houston.
Hatfield is drawing the wrath
of Razorback supporters who
haven’t gone to the Cotton Bowl
since 1975. Never mind the fact that
this is only his fourth year at the Ar
kansas helm.
Similarly, the Aggies have had a
Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde season.
For the second consecutive sea
son, the Aggies opened up with a
loss to Louisiana State. This year,
however, the loss broke a 14-game
home winning streak. Additionally,
the LSU game showed Aggie fans
that 1987 would nor be a walk in the
park.
When quarterback Craig Stump
failed to get the Aggies moving,
Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
promptly inserted red-shirt fresh
man Lance Pavlas, instigating a quar
terback shuffle that now includes
freshman Bucky Richardson.
The Aggies bounced back from
the 17-3 LSU loss with an impressive
win over Washington and (former?)
Heisman candidate Chris Chandler.
After extending their record to 2-1
with a win over Southern Missis
sippi, the Aggies traveled west to
meet the Red Raiders.
Once again though, the Aggies
appeared in their Mr. Hyde outfit
and traveled back from Lubbock
owning an unimpressive 2-2 record.
And although Sherrill’s Aggies have
won four consecutive games, the of
fense has continued to disappear on
a regular basis and even thedti
has been riddled on occasions,
But all that is in the past
Saturday’s game gives thewinit
inside track to the conff
championship.
So who will win? Weill
pends on which version i
teams show up in Kyle Field.
If A&M is able to throwtlk
effectively, it can score 1
against the Razorback defenst
year the Hogs neutralized Ai
Kevin Murray by using a two
three-man rush that allowed
guard Tony Cherico to float
the line of scrimmage.
This year, however, the
quarterback shuffle undouli
limited Arkansas’ ability to ptt
for the game. Both Stump and
las can drop back and throwtht
while Richardson is betterkno*:
running the option.
If the Aggies are unsuca
through the air, the Hogs de:
should be able to stuff the,!
rushing attack.
Defensively, the Aggies
had trouble in the past defes
the wishbone (Arkansas owns;
21-3 series record). But with
Arkansas’ quarterbacks at less
full strength, it remains to be
whether the Hogs can movetht
especially against A&M’sdefens
So look for the game to i
down to turnovers and special
play, an area in which A&M hi
celled lately.
But more importantly, loo!
an exciting game because nom
what kind of season both teams
had, playing for a chance at the
ference championship is all
counts.
Forgotten backup fullback
led Ags to victory over Hog
By Tim Stanfield
Sports Writer
When Texas A&M and Arkansas
lined up against each other in early
November 1974, most experts fig
ured that the winner would host the
1975 Cotton Bowl.
That was especially true for the
Aggies, who were unbeaten in SWC
play at that point.
However, injuries to key backfield
members had reduced the effective
ness of Coach Emory Bellard’s wish
bone offense, particularly at full
back.
Due to those problems, senior
Jerry Honore drew the starting as
signment at fullback against the
Hogs, even though Bellard felt that
he didn’t have the needed quickness
to be effective.
Honore’s situation mirrored that
of the entire A&M squad, which had
had only one winning season since
1958 (in 1967, finishing 6-4).
Already the squad had posted six
wins and was rated high in the
weekly top 10 polls in both wire serv
ices.
But the Hogs came into Kyle Field
ready for a fight, since as the series
had become physically tough with
the Aggies holding their own for a
change.
For the first time since the late
1950’s, A&M had defeated Arkansas
two times in a . row (in 1971 and
1972, by scores of 17-9 and 10-7).
In fact the scores for the two
games prior to the 1974 contest
ended up with almost the exact same
scores as did the 1985-86 games. (In
1973 A&M lost 14-10, just as it did in
1986 and the Ags won 10-6 in 1985.)
Honore was another in the Ag
gies’ long line of outstanding foot
ball players recruited from Loui
siana (he came from Lake Charles)
and was in coach Gene Stallings’ fi
nal class of freshmen.
Just as Jimmy Hawkins was some
what neglected after coach Jackie
Sherrill recruited his first class in
1983, in 1972 Honore found himself
playing behind fullbacks Alvin Bow
ers, Bucky Sams, and swingman
Ronnie Hubby.
By the time the Aggies took the
field against coach Frank Broyles’
Hogs, Bowers was long gone from
the team, Sams was hurt, and Hubby
was soon to be called upon to fill in
for halfback Skip Walker.
Walker left the game with four
minutes left in the first period, and
Honore’s date with destiny began.
Reserve tight end David Greeno
recovered Floyd Hogan’s fumble at
the Hog nine late in the period, set-,
ting the table for the Ags’ initial
touchdown.
“Mr. Who” carried the ball three
straight times, the final thrust good
for one yard and a touchdown.
Though he would later add to his
point totals, Honore noted that this
one was special.
“That one excited me to
because it was the first one I’df
scored in my varsity career,”hes
Place-kicker Randy
added a school-record 57 yard!
goal in the second period, and
Aggies took a 10-7 lead intotheb
time.
A&M backfield members ci
ued to fall in the third period,
ing at one point quarterbackD
Shipman, Honore, halfback
Hartman and freshman hall
David Craig in the lineup.
Arkansas kicker Steve Littles
yard field goal tied the score
14:18 to play, but only for
plays.
Continuing his Cinderella
performance, Honore became
man of the hour, as from hiso»
yard line, he burst up the mid
twisted away from a pairofwouli
tacklers, and outdistanced there 1
the Porkers as he raced 60 yards
the south end zone for the win
touchdown.
Haddox added a late field!
and the final score was Texas
20, Arkansas 10.
Honore had rushed for 13}f‘
on 19 carries after having brougl
career total of 29 yards on sixeaf
into the game.
Bellard was effusive in hispn
for Honore, noting that “He caff
and did an outstanding job. 'I
don’t know what we’d have
without the crazy son of a gun.
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