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By Doug Walker
Assistant Sports Editor
John Roper likes to talk about how
much he hates the offense.
He never played on offense and
doesn’t remember ever wanting to.
He enjoys hitting the quarterback
above all else.
Roper may want to reconsider his
feelings in light of his major contribu
tion to Texas A&M’s 28-24 victory
over the Texas Longhorns Thursday
night.
His 48-yard touchdown return of a
blocked field goal early in the second
quarter provided the difference, as
the Aggies beat Texas for the fifth
straight time.
The blocked kick gave A&M a 21 -
0 lead and provided a perfect exhibi
tion of the talents of the “Blitz Broth
ers” (Roper and fellow linebacker
Aaron Wallace).
Wallace broke through the left side
of the Texas line and blocked the
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“I was tired,” Roper said. “1 was
surprised at first, then I caught my
breath and ran up and scooped it up.”
As he neared the Texas goal,
Roper stiff-armed a Texas tackier and
lunged over the goal line for the
score.
Roper said, “I give credit to Darren
for the way he runs. He inspired me.”
A&M held Texas to a total of 14
yards rushing on 33 attempts for the
night and caught the Longhorns, for
losses totalling 63 yards. Roper
ended the game with six tackles (four
unassisted), one quarterback pressure
and one quarterback sack for a six-
yard loss. He also added one tackle
for a loss of two yards and broke up a
pass.
Roper’s touchdown looked like it
may lead to a rout as the Aggies built
their lead to 28-0 midway through the
second quarter. As the Longhorns
mounted their comeback the impor
tance of Roper’s score grew.
Texas cashed in on Aggie turn
overs deep in A&.M territory to draw
closer late in the game.
A&M Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
praised Roper and the other seniors
for their attitude and determination.
Photo by Jay Janner
A&M linebacker John Roper put the grips on Texas’ running game
and Eric Metcalf Thanksgiving night. Metcalf was held to 52 yards.
“There’s no question the three se
niors (Roper, Dana Batiste and Adam
Bob) made the difference,” Sherrill
said. “Texas did not take the ball and
have any sustained drives.
“You look at (Roper) and Batiste.
Every game they played harder and
harder. You don’t play for rewards.
You play for what’s inside. If (the de
fense) would have had a letdown,
we’d have lost the game.”
The Texas offense had the ball late
in the game with a chance to take the
lead, but the Aggies stifled them.
Roper and the defense had a talk
about the situation before stopping
Texas’ last threat.
“We just said that this is our last
year and we’d come too far to let this
happen,” Roper said. “We just had to
go for what we know.”
The Longhorns were stuffed all
night by the Aggie defense. Texas
gained more than one first down on
only one drive and managed only 11
first downs. Other than Jones’ 76-
yard scoring catch, the longest Texas
drive was the 35-yard move in the
second quarter which ended with the
blocked field goal. Texas’ Eric Met
calf managed only 52 yards rushing
on 22 carries.
Roper was happy about keeping
the A&M winning steak against
Texas alive and said Aggie fans need
not fear a letdown next year. Roper,
Batiste and Bob are among seven se
niors listed on the Aggie two-deep list
leaving after this week’s Alabama
game.
“It’s a happy feeling to beat them
five times in a row,” Roper said. “We
just came out and played as hard as
we could.
Finding motivation is key
for Aggies in ’Bama game
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Editor
What does a team have to fight for
when it has already beaten its archrival
and the schedule says the season ought to
be over?
Texas A&M is going to have to find
some kind of motivation, because one
game still remains on the Aggies’ docket
— the rescheduled game with the Uni
versity of Alabama.
Of course the game was scheduled for
Sept. 17, but Hurricane Gilbert and Ala
bama Head Coach Bill Curry — and
some would add, “not necessarily in that
order” — had other ideas.
Curry announced the day before the
game that his team wasn’t going to risk a
plane trip through an area that possibly
would be threatened by the hurricane.
So now both teams’ seasons are practi
cally over, the bowl bids have been ex
tended, and the yearly climaxes of the
teams’ respective seasons — ’Bama vs.
Auburn and A&M vs. the University of
Texas — are over.
Jackie Sherrill said at Monday’s
weekly press luncheon the result of the
postponement was difficult to measure.
“It’s kind of hard this time to get a feel
for either team emotionally,” Sherrill
said. “I don’t know if at the game either
one of them will be ready. I can’t get a
reading.”
But he said A&M was going to have
to be ready to win the game, because de
spite its 7-3 record, the Tide is an impos
ing force.
Sherrill said, “I can understand now
why Alabama thought at the beginning
of the year they were going to have a
pretty good year and contend with Au
burn for the (Southeast Conference)
championship, and maybe the national
championship.”
Since then Bobby Humphrey, their
Heisman Trophy candidate running
back, has been lost for the season with an
injury.
But Sherrill said the Tide is still
loaded with talent.
“They’ve got a ton of first-round
picks,” he said.
Leading the pack is Lombardi and
Butkus Award nominee Derrick
Thomas, Alabama’s star outside line
backer. Sherrill said Thomas would
probably go in the first three or four
picks of next spring’s NFL draft.
He compared Thomas favorably with,
another nominee the Aggies have faced
this year — Nebraska’s Broderick
Thomas.
“Anybody who’s seen Alabama and
Nebraska knows Derrick Thomas is a
better football player than Broderick
Thomas,” he said.
The Aggies will have to play without
Bucky Richardson. The sophomore
quarterback had knee surgery Monday
and will miss the game.
Sherrill sounded like the Sherrill of
old, refusing to say whether Chris Os
good or Lance Pavlas would start in
Richardson’s place.
“It doesn’t make any difference,” he
said. “We may put both of them in at the
same time.”
Believe it or not, hockey has
at least one fan in this state
There is a conspiracy against hockey.
Somewhere, there are powerful people plotting to
revoke Texans’ rights to enjoy the sport of hockey.
Little by little, there is less of it to be seen or even read
about.
Last year I was lamenting the lack of Texas
professional or semi-professional hockey teams. I was
extremely distressed that, for whatever reason, I was
being denied the opportunity to attend a hockey game
without leaving the state.
There used to be semi-pro hockey teams in Houston,
Fort Worth and Dallas — but no more.
Hey, there was even a hockey team on the A&M
campus!
Yes, long ago. But even that team drifted apart.
This is a terrible tragedy, but at least last year there
was something to fall back on.
Television.
All right, so we don’t have those hockey teams in our
major cities, but we received some comfort from the
fact that we were not completely cut off from the
hockey world.
Hockey fans’ savior was ESPN.
ESPN faithfully provided coverage for hockey-
starved individuals, but still I would grip over the fact
that our cities didn’t have hockey teams.
I should have been eternally satisfied with whatT was
already getting through television — Olympic hockey
and all — instead of being disgruntled.
Cray
Pixley
Assistant
Sports Editor
I suppose I thought the coverage of hockey by the
area media couldn’t get any worse.
Well, I was wrong. It got much worse.
Hockey season rolled around this year without
coverage by ESPN.It was a very conspicuous absense.
The last resource for hockey pulled the plug. Without
ESPN’s coverage there is nowhere to turn for hockey
information.
Oh, it can be argued that hockey is still on television
and in the newspaper, but this is not entirely
correct.For those hockey fans who have been in the
dark since ESPN abandoned the cause, here is where to
look for that hockey coverage.
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