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FL draft is a yawner;
he nightmare rolls on
“Oh yeah, just wait ’til next
|ear.”
It’s the standard post-season
phrase for losers and their fans.
Ve have all heard it numerous
imes — and die-hard Dallas
lowboys have had to utter it so
Inuch recently they probably
[numble it in their sleep.
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foke fans
ake up!
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q find that last season was just a
ad dream.
It was the second losing season
a a row for “America’s Team’"
nd one that saw an already di
aled team further split by a
ilayer strike.
There were picketers, picket-
rossers, hypocrites and butt-kis-
ers who engaged in fighting,
udslinging and the like.
And now can anyone forget
he replacement teams a.k.a The
icabs. Those super-motivated,
vould-be USFLers we sometimes
rowed over, sometimes laughed
t and at other times were so
icred by that we changed the
0 f*Bhannel to one of those black-
nd-white flicks or went outside
to cut the grass.
Like most teams, the Cowboys
lad both awsome scabs and well,
;eek scabs.
Wide receiver Kelvin Edwards
/as the star scab for Dallas, but
nost of the others looked and
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Cowboys fans felt as if they
were stuck in one of the serial
nightmare horror films. Dallas
quaterbacks Danny White and
Steve Pelluer took turns playing
the role of Freddie.
As if the Pokes’ problems
weren’t torture enough for fans,
the Cowboys arch-foes, those In
dians from D.C., won the Super
Bowl.
But now its spring, a time for
renewal, fresh air, romance and
the NFL draft.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look
as if this year’s draft has the sa-
voirs to take the Cowboys to the
Promis’d Land.
Experts are saying that this
year’s college crop may be even
weaker than last year’s — a poor
harvest at best.
Where do the Cowboys need
players?
Ask any fan and he’ll tell you
everywhere, especially at quater-
back.
But Cowboy Head Coach Tom
Landry said there isn’t a quater-
back in the draft better than his
starter, Steve Pelluer. He was
quoted in the Dallas Morning
News as saying, “I don’t see a qua-
terback being a choice for us.”
I know some of you are reeling
in pain over the thought of Pel
luer being better than this year’s
college studs or even worse the
thought of Pelluer starting for
the Cowboys next season, but the
sad truth is Landry is probably
right.
Washington’s Chris Chandler
and Syracuse’s Don McPherson
are probably the best of this year’s
quaterback crop and experts say
tney are second-rounders at best.
Neither McPherson nor Chan
dler is the type of QB that could
take a team to the playoffs in
their first pro year or second for
that matter.
Landry has promised to give
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backup Kevin Sweeney a real
chance in training camp. I guess
we’ll just have to wait and see.
In the meantime, the Cowboys
will get the 11th pick of the draft
(I bet now you wish the Cowboys
would have lost some of those
scab games). It’s not in the top 10,
but its the highest pick the Pokes
have had since 1965.
Last year, they broke with tra
dition and actually drafted well in
the first three rounds. No. 1 draft
pick Danny Noonan, Randy
White’s protege, is a star of the
future and Ron Francis and Jeff
Zimmerman, Nos. 2, 3 respec
tively, are contributing as well.
The Cowboys will be looking
for a pass rusher in the early
rounds this year, but may pick
from the bumper crop of wide re
ceivers.
With Mike Sherrard’s injury,
Notre Dame’s towel-hoarding
Tim Brown, South Carolina’s
Sterling Sharpe and Miami’s
Micheal Irvin will be hard to pass
up if one of them is still around
by the eleventh pick.
Illinois 6-foot-6 270-pound de
fensive end Scott Davis may be
the next Poke pass rusher. The
Cowboys are no stranger to tak
ing chances and it is possible they
might reach in another position
including linebacker.
On the trading block is veteran
halfback Tony Dorsett and safety
Michael Downs, two players I
would by happy to wave bye-bye
to. Downs is skinny and overrated
and compared to Herschel
Walker, Tony D is a slow-Poke.
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SENIOR
WEEKEND 1988
Senior Bash
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includes all three events. Tickets are on sale
at Rudder Box Office at 845-1234.
All tickets are presale.
‘FlyirY Frogs’ move on
to Penn sprint relays
AUSTIN (AP) — The Penn Re
lays on April 28-30 is the next stop
for the “Flyin’ Frogs.”
It’s not a highwire act coming to
Pennsylvania, but one of the most
successful sprint relay teams in
American track history.
Texas Christian won its 24th con
secutive 400-meter relay at the 61st
annual Texas Relays on Saturday,
despite a steady rain that made pass
ing the wet baton tricky.
TCLJ hasn’t lost a sprint relay
since 1986 at the College Station Re
lays.
The foursome of Roscoe Tatum,
Greg Sholars, Tony Allen and Ray
mond Stewart posted a time of 39.43
in the rain.
TCU set the Relays record of
38.97 in 1986 and followed it with an
American and collegiate record at
38.46.The streak of victories in
cludes two NCAA outdoor titles and
three Texas Relays’ first place med
als.
The Frogs will be going for a third
straight Penn Relays sprint relays’ ti
tle.
“We’re on a roll and I hope it
doesn’t end until after the NCAAs,”
said TCU Coach Bubba Thornton.
“We didn’t make any mistakes on
Saturday and that is the key to win
ning relay events.”
The Frogs didn’t mind the wet
conditions like their namesakes.
They also didn’t get too bold.
“1 wasn’t running all out,” Stewart
said. “I wasjust trying to make sure I
finished without getting hurt.”
Sholars added, “Our goal was to
pass the stick around without a big
problem. Now we’re shooting for a
third win in the NCAAs,” June 1-4
in Eugene, Ore.
TCU was named the outstanding
team for the first time at the Texas
Relays.
The Horned Frogs’ foursome of
Tatum, Sholars, Allen and Stewart,
also won the 800-rneter relay on Fri
day night, their first victory in the
event after three years of trying.
The Arkansas Razorbacks, who
won the outstanding team award last
year, took the 6000-meter relay on
Satuurday.
Joe Falcon, the nation’s premier
distance runner, ran a 3:51.0 anchor
over the final 1500 meters of the re
lay.
“I was very pleased with my race
and the team’s performance,” Fal
con said. “In this weather, winning is
all that counts. I just coasted. I didn’t
want to pull a muscle.”
He was named the meet’s out
standing male performer.
Heavy rain held the crowd to
2,000 fans and cut down the records.
Lynda Tolbert of Arizona State
didn’t let the rain bother her in the
women’s 100-meter hurdles, clock
ing a 13.11 which beat the meet re
cord of 13.15 by Benita Fitzgerald of
Tennessee in 1981.
“I consider it an honor to set a re
cord in the class field I w'as running
against,” Tolbert said.
Tolbert also led off Arizona
State’s medal winning team in the
women’s sprint relay. The winning
time was 45.76.
Stanford upset Arkansas in the
3,200-meter relay, winning in a time
of 7:22.66 to 7:23.19 for the Hogs,
who won the event last year.
The weather conditions were so
adverse that the invitational open
pole vault was cancelled.
A&M sluggers
take on SFA
at Olsen today
The third-ranked Texas A&M
baseball team will get a break
from Southwest Conference ac
tion when it plays Stephen F.
Austin tonight at 5:30 in a dou
bleheader at Olsen Field.
A&M swept Baylor in Waco
over the weekend to move into a
first-place tie with Texas in the
SWC.
The Aggies are 36-8 overall
and 8-1 in conference games.
Tonight also is Little League
Clinic Night at the ballpark.
A&M and SFA players will con
duct a short clinic between games
for all children in attendance.
Lady Aggies
fall to Trinity
on the road
By Loyd Brumfield
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M women’s ten
nis team continued to experience
hard times, losing to l Ith-ranked
Trinity 6-3 Monday in San Anto
nio.
A&M, ranked 25th nationally,
falls to 16-7 overall while main
taining a Southwest Conference
record of 5-2.
Saturday at the Omar Smith
Tennis Center, the Lady Aggies
were swamped by perennial
power Southern Methodist in a 9-
0 defeat.
“It was a very hard-fought
match,” A&M Coach Bobby Klei-
necke said. “It. could have gone
either way.
“I’m just proud of the way ev
eryone played.”
In singles play, A&M’s Gaye
Lynn Gensler, who was moved
back into the No. 1 singles posi
tion, lost to Jane Holdren 7-6, 6-
1; A&M’s No. 2 player Lisa Keller
lost to Anne Hulbert 6-3, 7-6, and
No. 3 Cindy Churchwell lost to
Trinity’s Katrina Crawford 6-1,
5-7, 6-2.
In other matches, A&M’s Su
san Williams defeated Mary
Graber 7-6, 6-3.
Trinity’s Dabney Langhorne
beat Traci Nix 7-6, 7-6, and
A&M’s Derryn Haygarth beat
Kilmney Watermann 6-3, 6-0.
With Trinity ahead 4-2, the
match moved on to doubles play.
In an upset, A&M’s No. 1 team
of Gensler and Keller knocked
off Holdren and Hulbert, the
2nd-ranked doubles team in the
country, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.
In other doubles matches,
Trinity’s team of Michelle Bo-
garrd and Crawford beat
Chrchwell and Haygarth 6-4, 6-2,
and Graber and Watermann de
feated A&M’s Cindy Crawford
and Williams 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.
The Lady Aggies will return to
SWC action Friday with a match
against Arkansas at 1:30 p.m. at
the Tennis Center.
Residence Hall
Association
Applications for the following Directors and Associate
Directors are now available in 215 Pavilion.
Directors:
Fundraising & Development
Public Relations
N.C.C.
Casino
Chaplin
Associate Directors:
Freshmen Leadership
Adopt-A-Fish
National Communications
Coordinator
Programs
Facilities & Operations
Freshmen Programs
RHA Affairs
Flistorian
Internal Affairs
External Affairs
Applications due noon April 15,1988; in 215 Pavilion
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Tuesday - April 12,1988
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