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Football-less weekend isn’t sport-less
A weekend without Aggie football is nothing new
for this fall. There have been a few.
The A&M football team will be idle once again this
weekend, but it won’t be because a hurricane is some
200 hundred miles away and the Crimson Tide
chickened out.
This rest is a legitimate weekend off. Think of it as a
kind of Halloween treat for the Aggie team. Louisiana
Tech has a week to put on its costume in hopes of
hiding from the "Wrecking Crew.”
So what is the sports-minded individual to do to
satisfy that sports craving?
A couple of weekends ago. the Summer Olympics
filled a gap in the Aggie football schedule. But those
games are long over— no one is even talking about
Carl Lewis anymore. It’s as if the Olympics never even
dominated NBC for two weeks.
If you blinked you even missed the World Series.
Yes. you may say that the weekend is not without its
football, and you would be quite right. The television
will be saturated with college games and the pros come
Sunday.
But be adventurous. Look beyond the realm of
football.
Look somewhere besides the confines of your
television set. There are other sports events in College
Station.
Other sports in College Station ?
I can almost see people cringing. Then, when one
gives it a second thought, there are other sports in
Aggieland. Yeah, there are other sports.
There’s basketball, baseball, swimming and
numerous others — not to mention practice for
forthcoming intramurals.
Cray
Pixley
Assistant
Sports Editor
The problem with these suggestions is that
basketball season is not quite here, baseball is not until
spring, and the swim team is in Dallas.
Even the Lady Aggie volleyball team has skipped
town for the sunny skies of Gainsville. Fla.
So the sports scene does seem a bit dry for College
Station this weekend.
Wrong.
Right here, under our very noses, is a fairly big
sports event. Where, where, where? What sport?
The sport in question is tennis.
Tennis?Yes. 1 suppose some people may snicker,
but tennis is here to save the weekend.
Tennis gets a bad rap because it doesn’t seem as if it
is too much of a serious sporting event.
The reason for taking it lightly?
Well, tennis isn’t the most violent sport or even a
contact sport. Tennis is something all of us weekend
netters can do with some success.
Sometimes it is even easy to fantasizethatioiid
be Steffi Graf's doubles partner. No one I Iwts
believes he could be one half of the’'Blitz Broifei
It seems like this identity factor enables uslc
tennis off into to the sub-sport status.
After all. tennis is not considered a tourdefej
a campus that is so dominated by footballt
doesn’t have that spectator potential likefootL:.
which is unfortunate.
While the Aggie football team has beenstrit;-
four consecutive wins, the A&M men's and ws
tennis team has been dashing around the state a
country playing preseason tournaments.
For three days this weekend, the men’s team,
host a four-way tourney at Omar SmithTennisCtJ
on campus that may well have some good action |
The tourney teams w ill be Texas Christian,!
Northeast Louisiana University and A&M.
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The point of interest is the standings of thetoj
teams.
TCU is ranked 13th in the preseason by lie I
Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association.»tiI
A&M and Northeast Louisiana are listed asttaiM
watch. I
A team-to-watch mention puts bothtcamsmial
in the high 20s or 30s in the nation.
Not too shaby.
Play begins Friday and the Aggies willbe
preview ing some new faces on the team.
It's the pick of the weekend. Takeadvanta»ecf||
great October weather to sun in the standsandu
some tennis action.
Check it out.
Oilers at goal despite loss
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Oilers are still where
they want to be at mid-season despite another road failure
against the Cincinnati Bengals. Oilers Coach Jerry Glanville
said Monday.
The Oilers beat Pittsburgh 34-14 two weeks ago in Pitts
burgh, but they fell apart in the first quarter Sunday and the
Bengals maintained control of the AFC Central Division with
a 44-21 victory.
“It comes with being employed in the NFL; one week you
can’t be any higher than you're going to get.*' Glanville said.
“Today, (Monday) you reach the other extreme. But nei
ther one lasts very long. You don’t get to savor or suffer too
long.”
The Oilers fell behind 28-0 in the first quarter Sunday and
never caught up although they narrowed the gap to 35-21 early
in the fourth quarter.
The Oilers had a chance to narrow the margin to 35-28 but
Drew Hill dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone and Toni
Zendcjas compounded the error by missing a 45-yard field
goal.
“That was a crucial time in the game where we needed that
lift.’’ Glanville said. “We had them worried. But we dropped
the TD pass, and then you go and miss the field goal. ’’
Zendcjas. who gets to face his former Washington team
mate Sunday night, has hit six of 15 field goals this season.
Oiler quarterback Warren Moon, in his second game since
missing six games with a shoulder injury, suffered two inter
ceptions and completed three first half passes against Cincin
nati.
He finished wih 13 of 32 completions for 158 yards and
complained after the game of a lack of velocity on his passes.
Moon reported to the Oilers' training room Monday and de
clined to talk with the media.
Oilers quarterback Coach June Jones said he wasn't aware
of any problem with Moon's velocity.
“1 thought he threw' the ball as well as he could.” Jones
said. “1 think he’s right there where he was before the in-
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Following Sunday’s game. Moon said "I didn’t have the
velocity 1 wanted. Even some of their players came over after
the game and said ’It didn’t look like you had the velocity you
used to have.’ ”
Glanville expects the Oilers to have put the Cincinnati game
aside by Wednesday to start preparing for Sunday night's
game against Washington in the Astrodome.
Glanville feels the Oilers are right on course for a return to
the playoffs.
“This loss would be devastating if we have only two games
left.” Glanville said. “But we’ve become a very good stretch
team.
“We've got eight games left and five wins w ill get us in the
playoffs. We just have to be in good shape coming down the
stretch.
“That’s w hen we play our best football.”
T he Oilers came out of the game w ith three ankle injuries to
linebacker Walter Johnson, tackle Bruce Davis and defensive
end Richard Byrd.
The Oilers now have two early lapses on the road this sea
son and both ended in losses.
Eagles hurt Cowboy hopes
IRVING (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys may have seen their
NFL playoff hopes go down the drain for the third straight
year on Sunday when they blew a 20-point lead in Philadel
phia.
The Eagles drove 93 yards for the game-winning touch
down with three seconds to play to beat the Cowboys 24-23.
The loss dropped Dallas to a 2-6 record and the NFC East
cellar at the NFL’s mid-season. Four of the losses have been
by a total of nine points.
It’s the Cowboys’ worst start in 25 years. Their worst sea
son was the expansion year of 1960 when they went 0-10-1.
tying only the New York Giants.
“It will be very tough for us to make the playoffs now.”
said Dallas coach Tom Landry. “It will be difficult for us to
make up three games against the schedule we’re playing. “
So far Dallas is 0 for October, losing to New Orleans,
Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia this month.
The Cowboys lost to the Eagles although quarterback Steve
Pelluer had his best day as a professional, hitting 32 of 46
passes for 342 yards.
“I thought we had the game under control,” Pelluer said.
“We just let it slip away. Everyone on this team knows we
can win. Maybe everybody is just waiting around for some
body else to make the plays to do it. ”
and they left the field leading 20-7. Dallas had used up all
three of its timeouts in the first period.
The Cowboys suffered 10 penalties in the fourth quarter,
five of them for holding, as the offense had trouble getting un
tracked.
“The penalties just ate us up alive.” Landry said. ”We
couldn't do much of anything because of them. The penalties
were the killers.”
Then Landry got the yardage marker mixed up late in the
game with the Cowboys leading 23-17. Landry thought the
ball was the 30 when it was really on the 23.
On third and 2, he called a pass play.
Pelluer rolled out. couldn’t find a receiver, and was flagged
for grounding the ball. The 12-yard penalty put Dallas out of
field goal position.
Dallas punted then the Eagles made the game-winning
drive.
“We wanted a safe little play and we just wanted to get the
first down.” Landry said. "We really didn’t think there was
anything risky about it. 1 thought we were on the 30-yard
line.’’ The Cowboys host the Phoenix Cardinals on Sunday, a
team they beat 17-14 earlier in the year.
Pelluer’s failure to get the clock stopped at the end of the
first half cost the Cowboys a chance for a short field goal try
The rest of the second half schedule includes at the New
York Giants. Minnesota. Cincinnati and Houston at home,
then away at Cleveland and Washington then home to Phila
delphia in the regular season finale on Dec. 18.
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Wyoming rides streak
to AP Top 10 berth
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyom
ing’s meteoric rise in the Associated
Press college football poll is a tribute to
the turnaround that has the Cowboys rid
ing the nation’s longest regular-season
winning streak.
A .500 team two years ago, Wyoming
cracked the Top 10 on Monday for the
first time in 21 years following Satur
day's 61-18 rout of Utah. UCLA. Notre
Dame and Southern California held onto
the top three spots.
Wyoming is 8-0 overall, 5-0 in confer
ence play and has won its last 17 regular-
season games.
The No. 10 ranking marked Wyom
ing’s fifth consecutive week in the poll
and was the highest since the Cowboys
were No. 6 in the final 1967 listings with
a 10-0 record.
“We don’t use it as incentive,” Roach
said of the rankings. ‘T’m sure that
pleases our players to receive that recog
nition. But we’re not defending a rank
ing. We're defending a championship,
and therein lies the difference.”
UCLA, which became No. 1 last week
after Miami lost to Notre Dame, defeated
Arizona 24-3 Saturday and received 35
of 60 first-place votes and 1.171 of a
possible 1.200 points from a nationwide
panel of sports writers and sportscasters.
1.144 points. UCLA and Notre Dame are
7-0-0.
Southern Cal, 6-0-0, was idle over the
weekend. The Trojans received five
first-place votes and' 1,086 points.
UCLA plays Southern Cal Nov. 19 and
Southern Cal meets Notre Dame Nov.
26.
Miami remained fourth with 1.024
points, following a 57-3 rout of Cincin
nati, and Nebraska held onto fifth place
with 893 points by trouncing Kansas
State 48-3.
Florida State crushed Division I-AA
Louisiana Tech 66-3 and moved up from
seventh place to sixth with 889 points.
The other first-place vote went to 7-0-
0 West Virginia, which dropped from
sixth place to seventh despite a 59-19
rout of Boston College. The Mountain
eers received 885 points.
Oklahoma edged Colorado 17-14 and
remained No. 8 with 762 points. Clem-
son lost to North Carolina State 10-3 and
fell from ninth to 15th. while Auburn’s
33-0 victory over Mississippi State en
abled the Tigers to jump from ninth to
eighth with 706 points.
Wyoming rounded out the Top Ten
with 653 points.
Notre Dame, a 41-13 winner over Air
Force, was second for the second week
in a row with 19 first-place votes and
The Second Ten consisted of Arkan
sas. Oklahoma State, Louisiana State.
Michigan, Clemson. Syracuse, South
Carolina. Georgia. Alabama and Ore
gon.
glimpse of what was to come for the rest
of the quarter.
On A&M's next possession, the Ag
gies roared down the field for another
score as only four plays were needed to
cover 79 yards to move ahead by a 24-3
score. After losing three yards on first
down. Lewis ripped through a huge hole
created by Moon and Arthur and then cut
back to the right side for a 38 yard gain
to the Rice 45.
Fontenot said after the game that Le
wis doesn't need much help to get a big
gain.
"All we have to do is open up a tiny
seam and he's going to get something.”
Fontenot said. "That gives us inspira
tion.”
On the next play reserve running back
Keith McAfee, in to replace Lewis, fol
lowed a block by right guard Bill Cava
naugh and ran 43 yards to the Rice 2 and
set up a scoring run by Richardson on the
next play.
Richardson said the Aggies knew what
had to be done in the second half.
"We knew we needed to come out in
the second halt and score.” Richardson
said. "We needed to put the drives to
gether when we got the ball, because we
didn't have the ball that often."
The Owls forced A&M to make the'
most of their possessions by using a ball-
control attack on offense that yielded a
margin of nine minutes and four seconds
in possession time for Rice. The Owls
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