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The Battalion
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SWC on the rise
again after 1989
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Arkansas Razorbacks success
fully defended their championship,
three teams are in bowl games and
Andre Ware won the Heisman Tro-
phy-
While the Southwest Conference
won’t produce a national football
champion this year, it had one of the
most exciting races in recent times.
Arkansas claimed the title out
right on Saturday with a hard-
earned 38-24 victory over lowly
Southern Methodist. The Hogs had
one loss on their record.
Texas, the team that beat Arkan
sas early in the season, fell 21-10 to
Texas A&M and, in the process, suf
fered their second consecutive losing
season. It was the first time the
Longhorns had back-to-back losing
since 1937-38.
The Aggies claimed second place
and a berth in the John Hancock
(Sun Bowl) in El Paso on Dec. 30
against the Pittsburgh Panthers.
Arkansas, of course, will meet
Tennessee on New Year’s Day in the
Cotton Bowl. The Hogs lost 17-3 to
UCLA in the Cotton Bowl last year.
Texas Tech is the other SWC bowl
representative. The Red Raiders
play the Duke Blue Devils in the All-
American Bowl in Birmingham,
Ala., on Dec. 28.
Although Houston couldn’t go to
a bowl because of probation. Ware
collected the ultimate prize, the
Heisman Trophy. He won it by only
70 points in close balloting over In
diana running back Anthony
Thompson.
The junior said he will return for
his final year at Houston in 1990 in
stead of opting for the big bucks in
professional football.
Houston ripped Rice 64-0 to fin
ish its season with only two losses, to
Arkansas and Texas A&M.
The Aggies beat Texas for the
sixth consecutive time as they fin
ished the season 8-3. Coach R.C. Slo
cum gave them time off until Dec. 16
when they will begin work for the
Panthers.
SMU led Arkansas 24-23 with
10:21 left before the Hogs finally
subdued coach Forrest Gregg’s 40-
point underdogs.
“When they scored that touch
down, I was thinking the same thing
everyone else was thinking, what’s
going on?” said Arkansas quar
terback Quinn Grovey. “We were
just shocked we were in that posi
tion.”
Grovey came right back to score
the game-winning touchdown for
the Hogs, who go to the Cotton Bowl
with a 10-1 record.
SMU, playing its first season since
it returned from the NCAA’s “death
penalty,” had two victories and led,
Texas, Arkansas, and A&M before
losing.
Houston’s Ware plans to return to Cougars next year
Photo by Jay fanner
Heisman winner Andre Ware will return to UH next year.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Cougars ac
cepted Andre Ware as a quarterback when others re
cruited him as a defensive back.
Now the 1989 Heisrpan Trophy winner plans to
ignore the riches of the NFL and repay the favor by
returning for his senior year.
“We’ll be back doing the same things next year,”
Ware said Saturday shortly after beating out India
na’s Anthony Thompson for the coveted trophy.
“Yes, I’ll be back next year. I’m looking forward to
the season. We’ve got a lot of guys returning on of
fense and we’re going to sign some of the finest re
cruits across the country.”
Oklahoma State’s Barry Sanders, the 1988 win
ner, skipped his senior year and became a 1,000-
yard rusher for the Detroit Lions this season.
Ware has other plans.
“I was here when this program was about to hit
rock bottom and now it’s special for me to see it turn
around,” Ware said in an emotional post-announce
ment news conference. “I’m so proud of this school.”
Some recruiters projected Ware as a college de
fensive back rather than quarterback, his position at
Dickinson High School.
“I’m so proud to be a Houston Cougar, a school
that believed in me to the fullest and never sold me
short,” he said.
“The thing I want to get across to everybody is
there is no more Cougar High. We’re definitely back
and we’re on track.”
The 13th-ranked Cougars closed out a 9-2 season
with a 64-0 victory over Rice Saturday.
Ware completed 36 of 51 passes for 400 yards,
finishing the season with 14 NCAA records, 13 of
them achieved within this year. He tied two other
NCAA marks.
Ware’s 365 completions for 4,699 yards are both
NCAA records. He also set records Saturday with
4,661 total yards.
Wale threw 46 touchdown passes, missing Jim
McMahon’s record of 47 in 1980.
Ware won the award by a 1,073-1,003 margin
over Thompson, who scored 64 touchdowns and
rushed 5,299 yards in his career. Thompson gained
377 yards against Wisconsin this season.
It was the fourth-closest vote in the 55-year his
tory of the award.
West Virginia quarterback Major Harris was third
with 709 points and Notre Dame quarterback Tony
Rice was fourth with 523.
Coach Jack Pardee, a blocking back for Texas
A&M’s John David Crow in 1956, a year before
Crow won the Heisman Trophy, said Ware’s selec
tion was his proudest moment.
“It’s the dearest moment I’ve had in athletics,”
Pardee said.
The pursuit of the Heisman for Ware replaced
battling for a major bowl for the Cougars, who are
on NCAA probation and unable to appear on tele
vision or play in bowl games through next season.
“This was our bowl game, Andre winning this for
himself and for the team,” Pardee said.
Crow, now Texas A&M athletic director, and Earl
Campbell, the 1977 Heisman winner from the Uni
versity of Texas, advised Ware to skip his senior year
and take the riches of professional football.
Their suggestions in print angered Houston ath
letic director Rudy Davalos.
“We don’t need anyone from our sister institu
tions telling us how to run our program,” Davalos
said. “And he doesn’t have to depend on football for
his future.”
Ware has his teammates’ support no matter what
choice he makes.
“He’s got to do what’s best for Andre,” cornerback
Cornelius Price said. “It would be hard to turn down
the pros but he says he’ll return.”
Super back Chuck Weatherspoon, also a junior,
hopes to have another season with Ware.
“Playing with him this year has been an honor,”
Weatherspoon said. “He has shown what a football
player should be on and off the field.”
Everett outduels Aikman in 35-31 win over Cowboys
IRVING (AP) —Jim Everett, sav
ing his best for the last, avoided the
embarrassment of losing to the
NFL’s worst team on Sunday and
kept the Los Angeles Rams’ slim
NFC West championship hopes al
ive.
Everett threw four touchdown
passes, including two in the last four
minutes of the game as Los Angeles
beat the luckless Dallas Cowboys 35-
31 in a classic case of living danger
ously.
“We’re lucky to get out of here
with our fannies,” Los Angeles coach
John Robinson said not so delicately.
“I’ll give Dallas some credit,” said
Everett. “We got two easy touch
downs but they wouldn’t die. It sui-
prised us but we did what we had to
do when we had to do it.”
Everett, who hit 27 of 37 passes
for 341 yards, rallied the Rams to a
20-17 overtime victory last Sunday
night in New Orleans.
“We can’t continue to screw up for
57 minutes then start playing great
football,” Robinson said. “We can’t
expect to win against San Francisco
next week doing that.”
Troy Aikman threw four touch
down passes and had Dallas beating
on the victory door when the Cow
boys ran out of time. He hit 19 of 34
passes for 179 yards.
“Troy played a great game,”
Johnson said. “We should have had
a time-out left late in the game but
the referee thought Troy called one
when all he was doing was giving
hand signals to our receivers. We ar
gued but it vvas too late.”
Aikman said he thought Dallas fi
nally was going to win a home game.
“We got down there at the end but
the ref hurt us when I was trying to
signal my receivers,” Aikman said.
“We came close again. This one
hurts.”
Los Angeles advanced its record
to 9-4 while Dallas dropped to a 1-12
record in its second-worst season.
The Rams are two games behind the
49ers in the NF'C West.
Everett overcame a 31-21 deficit
with scoring passes of 39 yards to
Ron Brown with 3:58 to go and 23
yards to Aaron Cox with 1:50 left to
piay.
“Jim told me in the huddle just
what to do if Dallas blitzed and they
did blitz so I took advantage of it,”
Cox said.
A&I’s Bailey
among finalist
for Harlon Hill
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP)-Tti
of the nation’s top small-collegei
tensive performers were lap[<
Sunday as finalists for the Hail
Hill Trophy, the Heisman Tro|l
of NCAA Division II football.
The trio included Texas Ailni
ning back and two-time «
Johnny Bailey; Alabama A&Mi
ceiver Barry Wagner; and Elk
Cole, a running back forEdinbort
Bailey, Wagner and Cole were:
top vote-getters from a field ofa
semifinahsts. They will attend!
Dec. 8 awards banquet, held onl
eve of the NCAA Division
championship game in Florence
The finalists emerged fromii
of 3 1 nominees in regional bahij
and then a national voteoftlifi
sion’s 1 16 sports information din
tors.
Bailey heads the list after dos
his career as the all-time lead!
rusher in NCAA football. Bai
gained 6,320 yards to smash To
Dorsett’s mark of 6,038 yards
Pittsburgh, and he also hold the*
purpose record with 7,803yards,
This year Bailey rushed for I,H
yards at T exas A&I, leadingthejr
elinas to a 10-1 record and a Lot
Star Conference championship.
Bailey, a senior from Housltf
was a runner-up for the Harlonli
Trophy in 1986, the first yearitw
presented. He took hometheatf
each of the last two years.
Wagner, a senior from Greet!
boro, recorded 106 catches for l|
yards this year, both record!
Against Clark College, the AlabaJ
A&M receiver pulled in 23tossesf(
370 yards, two more Division Iln
cords.
Wagner led Division II inrecfi
ing and touchdown receptions^
17 and helped the Bulldogs re*
the playoffs, closing his careend
162 catches for 2,669 yardsJ
caught only 56 passes in his fia
three seasons before A&M switch
to a more pass-oriented attack.
Cole ran for more than 100 p
eight times in 1989 to finish w
1,382 yards.
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