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The Battalion
Monday, November 7,1988
Senator Lloyd Bentsen
Leadership that works
For Texas
Lloyd Bentsen has continually proven to be one of the
most effective members of the Senate. Let’s keep him
working for us.
Re-elect Senator Bentsen
Nov. 8th
Come join Aggies for Bentsen, Monday Nov. 7 in room
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Folks here are still talking about
“The 1952 Incident.” For some reason still
unknown, a certain graduating class at a
certain university missed what was cer
tainly the opportunity of a lifetime.
The chance to meet with a recruiter from
the National Security Agency.
Maybe they were busy that day. Maybe
something else caught their eye. But the fact
remains, a meeting with NSA could have
meant a future full of challenging, exciting
projects.
Now you’ve got the same chance. Our
recruiter will be visiting campus soon in
search of talented mathematicians, com
puter scientists, electrical engineers and
linguists. We’re looking for people who want
to work on important hands-on assign
ments, right from the start.
NSA is the agency responsible for produc
ing foreign intelligence information, safe
guarding our government’s communications
and securing computer systems for the
Department of Defense.
And we’re equally committed to helping
you make your future strong. So do yourself
a favor and meet with us. You don’t need 3-D
glasses to see that it’s a great opportunity.
NSA will be on campus November 30 inter
viewing seniors majoring in Electrical
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Sports
Ags blow Tech away to S
for 5th straight win
By Jerry Bolz
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M Aggies overcame
high winds and a fiesty Louisiana Tech
team to win their fifth in a row by down
ing the Bulldogs 56-17.
Despite steady winds of almost 20
mph, the Aggie attack went airborn for
the most productive passing game of
quarterback Bucky Richardson’s career
at A&M.
Richardson, who hit on 9 of 13 at
tempts for 126 yards with one intercep
tion, said he felt the wind held the of
fense back.
“I was just glad to get a few comple
tions today,” he said. “Without the wind,
it wouldn’t have been as close in the first
half.”
Richardson said the passing game
would be necessary to beat Arkansas.
The Aggies travel to Fayetteville to face
the 9-0 Razorbacks Saturday in a show
down for the unofficial Southwest Con
ference championship.
Richardson said, “Arkansas feels like
they’re the best team, and we’re going to
try to prove them wrong. It’s definitely
the biggest game of our season.”
A&M Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
said, “Right now, we can devote full
concentration to Arkansas. They’re 9-0
and they have a lot of momentum going
into this game. Our players will respond
to this challenge well.”
In the first half, the Tech offense took
advantage of the wind to jump out to a
12-8 lead after the first quarter, and only
trailed 18-14 at the half.
Linebacker Dana Batiste said, “We
weren’t upset about the first half. We’re
used to taking off slow and finishing up
strong. We could have played better but
we were doing
fine.”
Running back Darren Lewis, who
topped the 1,000-yard rushing mark for
the season, said the Aggies underesti
mated Tech in the first half.
Bulldog Head Coach Joe Raymond
Peace decided to kick off to s.art the sec
ond half and chose to take the wind in the
fourth quarter. He said he hoped to keep
the Aggies to a low score in the third
quarter and mount a comeback in the
fourth.
The decision proved devastating. The
Aggies scored on all third-quarter pos-
essions to blow the game open. Then
they scored every posession in the fourth
— against the wind.
After returning the second half kickoff
to their 34-yard line, 11-yard runs by Le
wis and reserve tailback Larry Horton,
and an 18-yard completion from Rich
ardson to split end Rod Harris put the
Ags on the Tech 16.
From there it just took Richardson one
shot to weave through defenders and
score to keep A&M in front 25-14.
Tech got the ball back and quarterback
Gene Johnson’s pass to Bobby Slaughter
was picked off by A&M defensive back
William Thomas. Thomas fumbled the
ball on the return but teammate Alex
Morris fell on the ball.
Three plays later, Horton ran along the
5-yard line until he found an opening and
pounced in for the score to put the Ag
gies up 32-14.
Tech, who had only 12 first downs on
the day against 25 for the Aggies, was
stalled again on their next possession and
punted. A&M took only six plays to
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Photo by Phelan M. Ebeife
Bucky Richardson dives over the goal line for one of his three touchdowns
Saturday. Texas A&M beat Louisiana Tech 56-17.
travel the 42 yards into Tech’s end zone,
with Richardson scampering the final 15
yards on an option keeper to the right
side to make it 39-14.
Richardson hit Harris on consecutive
passes of 11 and 23 yards on the next
drive. The second was a spectacular
over-the-shoulder reception in heavy
coverage. Harris had five catches for 91
yards on the day.
“They were playing a lot of man-on-
man coverage, and I love man-on-man,”
he said. “I can do my thing.”
After going to Harris, the Aggies went
back to their mainstay of Lewis on the
ground.
His 160 yards on the day gave him
1,055 for the year, making Lewis the
fourth Aggie ever to rush over 1,000
yards in a season.
“It’s no big thrill,” he said. “It’s just
one of the things you go through as a
football player.”
To finish off the drive, kicker Scott
Slater, booted a 54 yard field goal, the
longest of his career, to extend the A&M
lead to 42-14.
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42-17. dusting 'em,"
The Aggie defense held Tech::Slight dual r
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The Bulldogs could only manag; while the won
total yards on the day. HThe A&M
mances by Mil
Linebacker John Roper, who v< '' v t * <
tackles on the day, said that stoppiniB^ wlt l t ie
run forced Tech to put the ball in tit;
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“This season. I’ve only had about a
kick per game, so any kick helps me with
the overall feeling of the game,” he said.
“It did me good inside.”
Tech finally sustained a drive on their
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the quarterback. ^ictory by th
Chris Osgood entered the game
orchestrated a 15-play drive that ett
nated with a 3-yard TD pass to Co®:
Patterson — the first of Patterson
lege career.
The pass was one of only two ot
drive. Lewis carried the ball eight
on a drive consisting largely of opti|
while Osgood kept the ball five time::,
Tech’s next drive ended quickly-:
tipped-ball interception by reserve■]
fensive back Chris Grooms and retell
the Bulldogs 12.
Robert Wilson and Keith MdfflL
pushed the ball close, and Mc.4, 10 S l ,
punched ,t in over the right s 'd £ ; tle sincc |%.s n
three yards out for the score.
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The worm has turned. It’s come full circle. What goes
around comes around. All the cliches apply. All the doubts are
gone.
The Southwest Conference has only three decent teams,
and the University of Texas ain’t one of them.
We all saw it coming. The Fred Akers years, when buckets
and buckets of Texas talent were wasted with subpar coaching
that led to unacceptable results, have been followed by the
McWilliams years, which seem to be characterized by the
same things. Except for the buckets and buckets of talent.
We all knew the Houston Cougars had all the tools nec
essary to manhandle the Longhorns. But 1 don’t think anyone
rea77y thought it would be quite as bad as it was.
For those of you who were busy watching the local mis
match, let me enlighten you:
Cougar passes covered the skies. Cougar TDs covered the
box score. David McWilliams covered his eyes. Mostly be
cause the UT secondary didn ’f cover the UH receivers.
Houston shattered the UT record for yards passing surren
dered in a game — the record that had been broken twice al
ready this season. The 619 total yardage output broke the re
cord of 516 set by Brigham Young — again, this season.
The total of 66 points was the worst in Texas home history.
Second worst in 91 years of UT football.
It’s tough to pick a single “worst.” Seven Cougar TD
passes. Chuck Weatherspoon’s 218 yards rushing on 11 car
ries. Matt Murdock, the latest in a string of quarterback “sa
viours,” going 15-for-39 with four interceptions.
Eric Metcalf even fumbled a punt.
But that wasn’t all of it — not by a long shot.
The basic fact of the matter is, the Texas Longhorns are not
really too good. They’re not too good at all.
Actually it’s kind of sad. The team that was a perennial na
tional-championship contender has sunk to the second divi
sion of its own conference — the conference it once owned
lock, stock and Cotton Bowl.
And as much as any one factor, Texas A&M gets the
blame. Or the credit, depending on your perspective.
The Aggies have beaten UT in the recruiting wars ever
since the Sherrill Era started. The blue-chippers like Everett
Gay, Anthony Byerly and John Walker got tired of stagnating
on Fred Akers’ bench and started coming to Aggieland. By
the end of 1986, when Akers finally lost his battle with the UT
alumni, the Horns couldn’t pay a player to go to UT. Al
though, as the NCAA seems to think, they could try.
Finally, Dec. 1, 1984, the recruits started to pay dividends.
Hal L.
Hammons
Sports Editor
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The Horns were reeling from two losses in their 1
games. But a win over Texas Christian sandwiched M
tween losses to Houston and Baylor gave UT some hope.
The Aggies took care of that — by the score of 37-12,i ;
deflated Homs made the mistake of continuing the season^
had fallen apart so completely and got blown out by WL
the Freedom Bowl. ! ITS 11 iT!
The year that saw UT reach the No. 1 ranking and thpihlA Ai I* V#
in the Top 10 as late as the 10th week of the 13-week sew
ended with a 7-4-1 record and a bitter aftertaste.
But the Horns rebounded the next year. They rebow HOUSTON
from lackluster performances against Missouri and Stanfof’ers and Cleve
play Oklahoma tight, losing only 14-7. A blowout lof fensive highs
SMU was the only really bad game they played in confet^night game in t
And they entered College Station with a very real Cdl The Brown
Bowl hope. Misive garnet
It stayed alive until halftime. Then the Aggies turned23-16 victory c
afterburners and blew to a 42-10 win and the subset The Oilers,
thrashing of Auburn that New Year’s Day. offs for the sec
UT hasn’t won a big game since. Rir best perfc
The alumni that hated Akers so much were hoping tW fending Super
theft of McWilliams would alter their beloved team’sdef lI ton Redskins 4
It hasn't. BGame time 1
Last year’s 7-5 record is looking pretty good now fof 1 a“Our defen
school that once would be satisfied only with a national''son and espec
They stand at 3-5 now and have underrated TCU next. Browns Coac
have to play Baylor in Waco, where they haven’t won''said.
1982 — only once since 1972.
And, of course, they have the Aggies. ■“As we w
Last year’s season was the first losing season since 1 ^'problems with
even before Darrell Royal. This one seems fated to be vtfTense, the de
Next doesn’t look any better. point.”
How the mighty have fallen. Four times