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■f" AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Our New College Station location offers Birth Control Counseling Women’s Services Female doctors on duty Student 10% discount with ID 693-0202 Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, October 27,1988 Landry shouldn’t quit, wife say They’re Here! t The 1988 Aggieland Where: The English Annex When: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Bring your school I.D. plastic covers available for 50$ IRVING (AP) — Alicia Landry said Wednesday she wouldn't encourage her husband to quit professional football, saying “everyone who knows anything about the game still thinks he is doing a great job." Her husband, Tom. has undergone a crossfire of criticism from some media and fans because of the Dallas Cowboys’ 2-6 start, worst in 25 years. “So far I’m not worried because I’m very optimistic in Tommy’s ability to coach, and 1 know he can do it,” she told the Associated Press. “He has proved he can do it. hasn’t he?” Mrs. Landry said the carping “was from a very few unfair people. Their job is to say something awful. The polls are kind of tacky, but there have been a lot of people standing up for him. ” Alicia said the attacks on her husband were also at tacks on his age. 64. “Don’t we have a president who is over 64?” she asked. “I guess it’s a sign of the times that when you get a little older you aren't supposed to be able to do anything.’’ Alicia and Tom aren’t letting the bad times get them down. “When we came to Dallas in the early '60s, a good friend of mine from the New York Giants (Ann Mara) told me, 'Don’t read the newspapers when you lose.’ I guess that’s why we’ve lived this long. I don’t think Tom’s morale is down. I don’t think he will let it affect him.’’ A 24-23 loss to Philadelphia on Sunday triggered the criticism of Landry after Dallas blew a 20-point lead. “It was a very tough loss,” she said. “1 didn't dream we could lose that game.” She attends all the Cowboys' game at home and on the road. “Sports is a lot like politics,” she said. “If you can't stand the critics, then you have to get out. “I know what you're saying right now — he should have retired, rieht? You have to understand that Tom is a competitor. He thrives on competition. 1 wouUnii to influence him to get out of the game —yeH the one who has to live with it, go to the offal those long hours every day. ” Coach Landry said on Tuesday he will howl contract w hich lasts through the 1989season. She said her husband was “extremely crazy”^ the current team. “He’s very happy with this team because it Mih, hard, that there is no dissension.’’she said, h team has so much heart and just a super mh I . hope someone doesn’t ruin it.’’ She said her husband does read the sports pa® ', everthing else but football.” She said the Landrys plan to be around tostet Cowboys regain their NFL prominence. “Life is difficult but once you know it,itiai| cult anymore.” she said. “Most of the people■ been lovely. They've still been nice every#!)® go.” Lady Aggies (Continued from page 9) match,” he said. “I’m not afraid to use my bench or freshmen.” It was a Texas freshman, attacker An nette Garza, that put the finishing touches on the match for the Longhorns. Texas took advantage of A&M mis takes and some hard kills to take a 7-1 lead on the Lady Aggies in the final game. A&M continued to mis-hit the rest of the game while the Longhorns played al most error-free volleyball. The high spot in Game 4 for A&M was two straight service aces by junior setter Yvonne Van Brandt to pull to within seven at 12-5. That was all they could muster, how ever, and after several Ag errors, Garza put it through outstretched defenders for the victory. Despite the loss, Givens was opti mistic for the rest of A&M’s season. “Even though the scores in the last three games weren’t close, we were playing good volleyball,” he said. “We got beat by a better team tonight. “But it doesn’t have to stay that way. Eventually we’re going to beat them. It’ll happen.” The Lady Aggies, now 15-9 (3-2 in Southwest Conference play), have not defeated the Longhorns since 1982, dropping 14 straight matches. The win moved Texas to 19-3 on the year, 6-0 in the SWC. Senior attacker Cheri Steensma led the Lady Ags with 10 kills and added 13 digs on defense. Sophomore Amy Cumings led in attack percentage with a low .267. Van Brandt had 16 digs to lead the squad. Haley had only praise for the Lady Aggies. “Steensma is great,” he said. “She must fool 90 percent of the blockers in the country. And when (senior Vivian) Viera gets hot, she’s like a rubber band.” Campbell numbei to remain retired The Lady Aggies team hitting percent age of .051, compared to Texas .273, was a major difference in the loss for A&M. Texas was led by senior Dawn Daven port with 13 kills for a .478 hitting per centage. Haley said Davenport is one of the top three players in the country. The crowd of 1406 was the largest for the Lady Aggies this season. Haley said he enjoys playing at G. Rollie White Coliseum. “I would hate to think what it would be like if the whole place was filled — A&M might win the first two games,” he said. Givens said his teams goal is to finish in the top two teams in the SWC. They are currently tied for second. “Our season doesn’t start and end with how we do against the Longhorns,” Givens said. The Aggies travel to Florida this weekend for matches against Rorida, Purdue and North Carolina State in the Volleyball Monthly/Nike Classic. AUSTIN (AP) — University of Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds said Wednesday he would not support any move to take former Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell’s No. 20 jersey out of retirement. A newspaper report over the weekend had said “a big rumor floating around Austin” was that No. 20 would be pulled from retirement for Robert Strait of Cuero, who also wears No. 20 and is considered one of the state’s top college running back prospects. “Let me make my position clear,” Dodds said. “There is no way I would support any move to activate that num ber. There has never been any discussion about Earl’s number with relation to any recruit or player.” Dodds said discussions with former football coach Darrell Royal, head coach David McWilliams and the UT athletics council earlier this year had centered around the possibility of retiring the jer seys, or numbers of former Longhom greats Bobby Layne and Tommy Nobis. Campbell, a former UT running back and in 1977 UT’s only Heisman winner, had said he did not think his jersey — the only one ever retired at UT — should be used again. “I don’t think it’s fair to me or fair to the guys I played football with here for four years. We all worked hard and de served the honor of having it retired. If they (UT officials) arc planning on I bringing it out of retirement, ilj who played on those teams should!; role in making that decision,”hesiii| McWilliams said, “We went last year that there’s nowayneita to get Robert (Strait) sincewecantj him No. 20. We’ve never i giving it to him because it’stttEj least, that’s my feeling. AsL. concerned, there’s nowaywecoiijH 01 ’ 111 • - m . .• •’ |tor. in Wedik Rep consider doing that Dodds said UT officials pra have been discussing what to doi No. 22. worn by quarterback Lam* No. 60. worn by such playersasta { linebackers Nobis and JohnmTic and current middle Hager. “I don’t want to get into a fip a jersey, but I feel stronglyak Campbell told the Austin An Statesman. He said he hadn’t the matter with Dodds. “I dot that it’s DeLoss Dodds' decisa would hope they would have»k_,, spect for me and those guys Ipbw 1 to at least mention it tome.’ “We are looking into waysofi ing athletes in the future,” Dk “If the council had even ca doing anything that would haver Earl, he would have been the fra anybody discussed it with. 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Pauli Research will perform FREE Urinary Tract Infection Testing for those willing to participate in a 2 week study. $200 incentive for those who qualify. $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME STUDY $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 Wanted: Symptomatic patients with physician diagnosed $100 Irritable Bowel Syndrome to participate in a short study. $100 $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. °0 $100 $100 $100 $100 make it this week.” As a life-long A&M fan, one who didn’t get to see them play in person until 1961 (and the 1967 Texas game was only my eighth game, six of which were here), I really thought that the stadium was full all the time. That’s what Aggies told me — but, sorry guys, somebody lied. The false hood didn’t — and doesn’t — matter a bit to me, but what about the players who look up and see 20,000 or more empty seats when a “lesser opponent” shows up? Including the 1967 loss to SMU, A&M has played 1 15 home games through the recent Rice game, posting a 75-40 record and winning three undis puted SWC titles. Yet, in only three years did the Ags draw an average of 60,000 fans, topped by last year’s 66,623. Three of the seven crowds exceeding 70,000 occurred last year, including LSU (71,282), Arkansas (73,511) and —surprise — Texas (78,573). One week after the Ags lost to LSU, attendance dropped 13,000 as they trounced Washington 29-12. Those who missed the game also missed the only time quarterback Lance Pavlas has thrown a touchdown pass. Yeah, the same guys play each week even if the number of empty seats goes up or down depending on the opponent. Attendance jumped 20,000 from the Louisiana Tech rout (32-3) to the Arkan sas game (14-0). Three of the other four 70,000 crowds came to see Texas, of course, but in 1986 74,739 fans left Kyle Field gasping for breath after the Aggies overcame a 17-0 deficit to win 31-30. While the mean for the 115 games is 50,024, the numbers have gone up since Coach Jackie Sherrill took over in 1982. With Sherill at the helm, the Aggies have drawn 57,193 per opening, only 15,000 and change under capacity. A&M has won 33 of those 42 games but actually drew under 40,000 once — probably when the team needed some support in the worse way. After Arkansas humiliated A&M 28-0 in the rain and sleet in Fayetteville, the Aggies returned to Kyle Field to play a TCU team that could have gone to its first Cotton Bowl since 1958 had it won that day. Just 38,209 fans “filled” Kyle Field that afternoon, but they were rewarded when defensive back James Flowers in tercepted a pass in the first quarter, re turning it for a touchdown. Though nobody knew it at the time, that interception turned the entire pro gram around. A&M beat TCU 35-21, went to Austin and beat Texas 37-12 and has won every SWC title since then as well as being 4-0 (and ineligible) so far in 1988. Lots of you missed that, huh? Too bad, for if Ags really meant it when they said that they “always” support the team, the stadium would have been rock ing that day. Sherrill has seen six different occa sions when 40,000 were in attendance,, 23 in the 50,000 range and another six between 60,000 and 67.884. Six of the seven 70,000 crowds are his, too (A&M drew 71,731 in Coach Tom Wilson’s fi nal home game in 1981). Television tends to limit the size of the crowd, which isn’t supposed to happen with devoted Aggie fans. Interestingly enough, weather hasn’t been that much of a factor. The 1980 Baylor game is an example, as the eventual SWC champion Bears pounded the hapless Aggies 46-7 in cold, rainy conditions before 69,588 (the eighth largest crowd at Kyle Field). Nonconference games are a drag too, as only 16 of 34 have drawn more than the mean. In SWC games. 50 of the 81 played have surpassed the average. Curiously enough, considering that during the first three years of this survey A&M averaged only 36.484 for 12 games, the median and mode arc ex tremely close to the mean (50,024). The median game is Rice, 1978, when 51,461 watched quarterback Mike Mo- sely throw a touchdown pass on Coach Wilson’s first offensive play (A&M won 38-21). Rice was also the 57th smallest crowd, this time in 1980 when 51,630 saw the Owls upset the Aggies 10-6. And the number in thousands that was most frequent was, yep. 51.000, which was good for nine games. Should only about 50,000 or so show up for Louisiana Tech next weekend, who knows what the empty 22,767 seats will miss? Recall that the longest pass completion in A&M history occurred against La. Tech in 1981 (92)tris.i Kubiak to Don Jones). The longest running play at Ifel place in 1976, when resent kz* Darrell Smith raced 90 yant:| fourth quarter of A&M’s 59-10wl TCU. Keith Woodsidc tiedttii'.'J last fall against Texas. The only two times A&M til passed 700 yards in total offel against Tulsa in 1985 (702ui- T current record of 705 in M TCU Let’s not forget the eveiplj proud A&M alumni, especial!; I. who live in either the Dallas-Fot'f ( Me tropic x or around Houston. Where are they? One them are not is at a local A&M8 game. Since SMU, TCU,Houffll Rice all draw poorly at home. ply is no excuse for Aggies notl their stadiums. Stallings’ 1967 squad 27,500 hardy souls against Purfcl Cotton Bowl stadium — some- 1 fewer than saw that same tenite bama 20-16 in the 1968 Cod*> game. Rice couldn’t fill up theirpfa | j bet. but the largest crowd A&M kf j there in 21 years was 58,000-11* So what’s it going to be,n)’ Ags? Are we going to fulfill ouiti of watching our team playalllhrt do wc just let our words fillemp;■ Oh, yes. 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