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Big UT rallies kill
A&M in 3 games
Big runs at critical stages were
the downfall of the Lady Aggies,
as Texas A&M lost three 15-9
games to the Texas Lady Long
horns Wednesday night in Aus
tin.
A&M Coach A1 Givens said,
“We got beat by a better team to
night.
“They’re a good team. It’s the
mark of a good team that it can
play not so well and still be suc
cessful.”
A&M falls to 17-13 on the sea
son and 5-4 in Southwest Confer
ence play. Texas finished up its
SWC season at 10-0 and 25-5
overall.
UT won the first four points of
the match and didn’t let up to
take the first game.
A&M jumped to a 7-0 lead in
the second, but after UT tied the
game at 7 and 9 the Lady Long
horns took command, reeling off
six straight points for the win.
A late charge helped Texas
again in the third game. Six
straight points stretched a 6-5 UT
lead into a seven-point lead.
Givens said a key of the the
Lady Aggie defense would be
stopping UT’s Dawn Davenport.
Davenport still led her team with
11 kills on the day in 18 attempts
with only two errors for a .500
percentage.
“Davenport and Quanda Har
rell put up a wall,” Givens said.
A&M was led by Kelli Kellen
with nine kills, while Amy Cum-
ings, Cheri Steensma and Mel
anie Rudder each added six.
Givens said he thought the
team would need two more wins
to get into the NCAA tourna
ment, including Saturday night’s
game against Baylor.
The match starts at 8:30 at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
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Smith’s big day against Frogs came as a back
One of the worst problems backup offensive
backs had during the Coach Emory Bellard Era
at Texas A&M was getting playing time.
Even though the Aggies had gone from a 3-8
team in 1972 to 10-2 in 1975, the offense had
only been effective sporatically, thus reducing
the time subs could play.
Injuries to key starters put untried youngsters
on the field in 1974 and 1975, but by September
1976, Bellard knew who he wanted in his Wish
bone backfield.
Senior quarterback David Shipman could
hand off to big sophomore fullback George
Woodard, or to a pair of youngsters who did get
to play a lot, freshmen Curtis Dickey and David
Brothers.
Squadman Darrell Smith, a running back from
Fort Worth, had to be content with little work, as
the starters accumulated the statistics that even
tually saw both Woodard and Dickey score more
than 200 points and Dickey overtaking Woodard
as the all-time leading A&M rusher (after big
George had taken that honor from former team
mate Bubba Bean).
Bellard’s bunch entered the 1976 off two dis-
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appointing losses; Arkansas humiliated them 31-
6 on national television when the Aggies were the
second-ranked team in the country, and South
ern Cal shut them out 20-0 in the Liberty Bowl in
Memphis, Tenn.
Bellard’s first recruiting group — which in
cluded Bean, wide receiver Carl Roaches, tight
end Richard Osborne, defensive backs Pat
Thomas and Jackie Williams, along with super
linebackers Garth TenNapel and Ed Simonini —
had departed. But Bellard’s cupboard was any
thing except bare.
Defensive backs Lester Hayes and William
Thompson joined linebackers Robert Jackson
and Jesse Hunnicutt plus defensive linemen
Tank Marshall and Edgar Fields to provide the
Ags with a stout defense.
Offensively, A&M had some new faces plus
the burden of having fallen on its collective face
with the Cotton Bowl game on the line in the Ar
kansas hills the previous December.
Smith — and fellow freshman running back
Adger Armstrong — spent most of their time
watching the starters rack up a disappointing 3-2
record early that fall.
A&M defeated Virginia Tech 19-0 at Kyle
Field in the season opener and followed with a
comeback victory over Kansas State (34-14).
Then the roof fell in on them before 70,001 at
Rice Stadium when Houston defeated A&M 21-
10 in the first Southwest Conference game be
tween the two rivals.
A desultory 14-7 win over Illinois in Champ
aign preceded another SWC defeat, this time to
Texas Tech (27-16 at Kyle Field). Out of the
SWC race with an 0-2 record, the Ags, especially
sophomore place-kicker Tony Franklin, struck
back at the Baylor Bears.
In the middle of a rain storm, Franklin booted
NCAA-record field goals of 64 and 65 yards to
lead the Aggies’ win 24-0 — and set into motion
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Despite pansies, some bowl games will be worth watching
The college football season is winding
down and the bowl matchups are starting to
take shape. Bowl invitations go out
Saturday and, even though the Aggies
won’t be involved, there should be several
interesting matchups to keep you
entertained over the holiday season.
Earlier this week, as I was looking over
the morning sports page, I noticed that
some of the teams expected to lock up bowl
bids on Saturday have loaded up on either
smaller Division I-A schools or Division I-
AA teams.
Three teams — Florida (6-4), North
Carolina State (6-3-1) and Army (8-1)— are
on the way to bowl games only because they
scheduled lightweights.
A list of teams beefing up on patsies
includes several A&M opponents.
Alabama, Arkansas, Houston, Oklahoma
State and dear old Texas (which might have
been 1-8 without New Mexico and Rice on
the schedule) make the list. All these teams
have met only two teams which will be
playing in bowl games:
• Alabama (7-2) — lost to LSU and will
meet Auburn on Thanksgiving Day.
• Arkansas (9-0) — defeated Aloha
Doug
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Assistant Sports
Editor
Bowl-bound Houston and ends the season a
week from Saturday against Miami.
• Houston (7-2) — defeated Wyoming
last weekend after suffering a close loss
earlier in the season to Arkansas.
• Oklahoma State (7-2) — lost to both
Nebraska and Oklahoma. Otherwise, it’s
not their fault they’re in the Big Eight.
At the other end of the spectrum stands
another Aggie opponent: Division I-AA
Louisiana Tech.
The Bulldogs have played more bowl-
bound teams (four) than any of the teams I
have previously mentioned and have paid a
heavy price for it in terms of wins and
losses. Financially, the 3-7 Bulldogs have
probably never had it better.
A closer look at the schedules of these
teams reveals how they got where they are.
Florida removed the Miami LIurricanes
from the schedule and replaced them with
Montana State, who were thrashed (69-0)
by the Gators in the season opener. (I hope
they had some body bags available for the
trip back to Montana.) Two weeks later, the
Indiana State Sycamores visited Gatorland
and were equally successful, losing 58-0.
N.C. State, playing in the lowly Atlantic
Coast Conference, picked up wins over
Western Carolina (45-6) and Eastern
Tennessee State (49-0) before entering
conference play and edging Wake Forest
and hapless Georgia Tech. The Wolfpack
lost to South Carolina, the only decent team
they played. State is in the running for a
spot in the Peach Bowl.
Army can be excused. The Black Knights
of the Hudson shouldn’t be forced to play a
Division I-A schedule. After all, they are an
institution with high academic and
leadership standards.
However, Army stands at 8-1 against a
schedule that included Air Force,
Vanderbilt and Northwestern. To their
credit, the Black Knights have beaten these
teams (Air Force is the only good one).
Their only loss came against Washington
(31-17).
“So,” you ask, “what’s your point?”
My point is there are too many bowl
games around and this causes mediocre
matchups between teams that really don’t
deserve to be playing in bowls in the first
place.
I don’t know which games you plan to
watch, but here are some suggestions.
Some good games appear to have already
been agreed upon.
For instance, the Aloha Bowl features
Washington State against Houston. These
are two of the most explosive teams in
college football and this may be the most
exciting bowl of all.
But, if importance is what you’re looking
for, don’t bother watching any of the bowl
games prior to January 2. The six major
bowls are on that day.
In one of the majors, probably the Fiesta
Bowl pitting Notre Dame against West
Virginia, the National Champion will be
determined.
The Cotton Bowl has our beloved
Arkansas Razorbacks, who will probably be
recovering from a mutilation at the hands
of Miami, against either Florida State of the
UCLA-USC loser. If you hate the Hogs, be
sure to tune in because they’ll probably get
creamed. However, with CBS airing the
game, you’ll be lucky to tell what’s going on.
In the Sugar Bowl, the Southeastern
Conference champion (either LSU or
Auburn) meets either Florida State or USC.
The Rose Bowl has the winner of this
weekend’s USC-UCLA clash facing
Michigan in what looks to be another win
for the Pacific 10 Conference
representative.
Clemson should meet the Nebraska-
Oklahoma loser in the Citrus Bowl and, in
what could be the best game of all, Miami
will stay home to meet the winner of the
Nebraska-Oklahoma game (the Big Eight
champ).
As usual, the six major bowls will provide
a great ending to the college football
season.
If they would only get rid of a lot of those
deadwood games, the bowl season would be
more meaningful and entertaining.
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