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atched linemen Mike Arthur, Rich-
nond Webb and Mike Pappas spend
hree days after each game away
rom practice due to injuries.
They would sit out, get taped up
nd practice on Thursday, play Sat-
irday and spend the next week hurt
gain.
Along with a healthy offensive
ne, Slocum will be able to field the
lefensive backfield that was touted
t the beginning of the season as
^&M’s strongest in years.
The week off gave starting strong
afety Gary Jones, who had been
lagued with a pulled groin injury,
o recover for Saturday’s game.
With a healthy line and a strong
assing game from junior quar-
:rback Lance Pavlas, the Aggies fi-
ally should be able to open up a
ittle running room for Darren Le-
is.
But don’t count on the Eagles to
tst roll over and play dead because
hey are 1-3.
Southern Mississippi is armed
ith Brett Favre, a 19-year-old ju-
hewd
■e s®
nior and Heisman Trophy candi
date, at quarterback.
Favre is known for his ability to
throw on the run and can be deadly
accurate.
Slocum expects the Eagles to run
a similar type of offense that Wash
ington usecf so well in their 19-6 vic
tory over A&M three weeks ago.
“They will run an I-formation of
fense,” Slocum said. “Favre will
throw quick, short route passes and
take away our defense’s blitzing abil
ity — they will look a lot like Wash
ington.”
Southern Mississippi wall also be
hindered by a grueling travel sched-
ide.
The Eagles will leave Ffattiesburg,
Miss. Friday morning by bus, and ar
rive in New Orleans two hours later.
From New Orleans, they will fly into
Houston and leave by bus for Hunt
sville, where they’ll spend the night.
The Eagles finally will arrive in
College Station on Saturday for the
game.
Hallman, a Texas A&M graduate
and former player, will return to
Kyle Field for the first time since he
left in 1987. Hallman left A&M in
1987 to take over the head coaching
job in Southern Mississippi.
The Aggies will look to extend
their dominance over the Golden
Eagles this Saturday. A&M has won
all three career games against South
ern Mississippi. The Eagles are 0-5
versus Southwest Conference teams.
The last time A&M and Southern
met was in Hattiesburg
Mississippi
durine the
First
faced his alma matter for the
time as the Eagles’ head coach.
In what was later to be known as
“The Curse of the Big Play” game,
the Aggies beat the Eagles 27-14.
The Aggies scored three touch
downs on big plays by three fresh
men.
The first big play score came on a
69-yard screen pass from Lance Pav
las to freshman fullback Matt Gur
ley.
Next, freshman running back
Darren Lewis exploded for a 77-
yard touchdown in the third quarter.
The last of the big plays came from
quarterback Bucky Richardson.
Richardson scored on an 82-yard
third-and-13 play with just eight
minutes to go in the game.
Slocum announced on Tuesday
that Richardson had been redshirted
for the 1989 season. Richardson in
jured his knee last November against
Texas and hasn’t fully recovered
from off-season surgery. He’ll re
turn next year as a fourth-year ju
nior.
Aging boxers Foreman, Cooney
come to terms on January fight
NEW YORK (AP) — George
oreman vs. Gerry Cooney: It’s
illed as “The Preacher vs. The
iincher,” and the winner talks
reamily of a shot at Mike Tyson.
Would either have a prayer?
“I want to win the world
lampionship by the time I’m 42,”
lid Foreman, the 40-year-old
exan who is 19-0 since leaving the
ulpit for his improbable comeback.
Then I’ll retire and come back
gain at 52.”
“I think there are a couple of
ghts out there for me,” said Coo-
ey, 33, who has not fought since
987 and only eight times in the
980s. “Evander Holyfield, Mike
yson. All I know is I like being
here I am right now.”
Foreman and Cooney meet in a
heduled 10-rounder Jan. 15 at the
tlantic City Convention Center as
[art of a Top Rank Inc. and Caesars
tlantic City promotion. Each is ex
pected to earn at least $ 1.2 million.
“This is the fight that everybody is
talking about,” Top Rank president
Bob Arum said.
It’s a Fight that probably should
have been made a decade earlier,
though. The talk would have been a
little more brisk. Foreman had been
retired for just two years then, and
Cooney was 22-0 with 18 knockouts,
a real comer.
Now, it’s just a curiosity.
“I’m not fighting Gerry Cooney,”
Foreman said at a news conference
Thursday, looking a little rotund but
planning to come in at around 250.
“I’m Fighting time. He’s 33. He’s just
a kid to me. I’m going to be the old
est heavyweight champion of the
world.
“If Gerry Cooney knocks me
down, I’m going to grab him by the
trunks and pull him down because I
want to be heavyweight champion of
the world.”
Foreman won the world heavy
weight championship on Jan. 22,
1973 by stopping Joe Frazier in the
second round in Kingston, Jamaica,
and held it until Oct. 30, 1974 when
he was knocked out in eight rounds
by Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa,
Zaire. His record is 64-2 with 60
knockouts.
Cooney’s last Fight was a fifth-
round knockout loss to Michael
Spinks on June 15, 1987 in Atlantic
City. He fought for the World Box
ing Council title on June 11, 1982
when he was stopped in 13 rounds
by Larry Holmes. Between the
Holmes and Spinks fights, he boxed
just three times while being totally
inactive in 1983 and 1985.
In the meantime, Fight people
were beginning to question his de
sire, and there were drug and alco
hol problems.
“I’m at peace with some of the
things that happened in my turbu
lent life,” Cooney said. “There was
always a lot of confusion in what was
happening to me.”
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