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Heads up!
Photo by Sondra Robbins
Lance Nigliazzo, a sophomore pre-med major Monday at Simpson Drill Field. The field may
from Bryan, heads the ball in a soccer match close to students in the future for renovations.
Rasmussen
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of tradition called Aggieland, tl
could be considered a mortal sin
So what exactly do you tell the*
people?
You explain to them thataconfei
ence comprising TCU, SMU,
lor, Rice, Houston and A&S
wouldn’t generate enough
pay for the matches to light
(which in itself becomes useless sintf
Texas is more than likely to I
seen the light and left the SWC).
So has anything useful comef
discussions of what has been coinei
“Merger Mania?”
But of course. Just gander atsom
of these quotes made by official!
around the SWC:
• “Arkansas’ move to the SEl
means that (Rice) won’t finish ninil
in the SWC anymore,” said Fret
Goldsmith, Rice head football coacl
Probably one of the most candid ant
realistic assessments of the
back’s move.
• “We will remain part of tlit|
SWC as long as it remains a viable
conference,” said Dr. William f
ley, President of Texas A&M
versity. The key word here is viable
Has the SWC ever been a viable con
ferenee?
• “There is a strong possibilityw
will remain in the SWC,” said Franl
Broyles, Arkansas Athletic Director
Bi oyles made this now infamom
statement a week before the Razor
backs defected. Frank gets anothei
pig call for this faux pas.
So quit already with Bo, Ninja
ties, Iraq, gas prices and seedystorie
of conf erence mergers and promise!
made and broken.
asks
Quarterbacking a family tradition
MISSION (AP) — Throwing th^ football is part of
everyday life in the Detmer family.
Ty Detmer was the state’s leading passer when his fa
ther, Sonny Detmer, was head football coach at San An
tonio Southwest High School in the mid-1980s.
After Ty Detmer graduated, he was recruited by
Brigham Young, where he is now the quarterback.
Sonny Detmer, now head football coach at Mission
High School, again has a son as quarterback.
Before Koy Detmer is finished, he and his brother
could become to Texas passing records what Phil and
Jim Niekro were to to pitching victories in baseball.
“He’s farther along now than I was at the same time
in terms of picking up blitzes,” said Ty Detmer. “And
he had a good spring training to back it all up.”
Last season, Koy threw' for 600 yards in part-time ac
tion behind Willie Rodriguez, who threw for 1,650. Al
though the passing game remains a relative rarity in
most of Texas, he has known nothing else.
“It’s more exciting, more fun,” said Koy Detmer. “It’s
fun playing for my dad because of the offense he runs.”
During the three years Ty Detmer played for his fa
ther at San Antonio Southwest, he became the most
f irolific passer in Texas high school history, throwing
or 8,005 career yards.
During the 1980s, he was the first in a series of re
cord-breaking throwers. Kirk Saul of Turkey Valley,
Lupe Rodriguez of Mission and Steve Clements of
Huntsville were the others.
“Dad had it all in over the years. He just added a little
more to it each year,” said Ty Detmer. “The situation
was just right at Southwest. It seems like we were the
first ones to really start throwing, and although some of
the records have been broken, there is still a lot of pride
involved. We were the first to open it up.”
His success at Brigham Young has been particularly
satisfying for the Detmer family, since an anti-Ty back
lash of sorts occurred his senior year in high school af
ter he announced early he would sign with BYU’s Cou
gars.
“I realize they (recruiting services) did what they did
to get boosters off their backs,” said Detmer. “It didn’t
bother me at all, because I knew I was going to a good
place. People up here are happy with me.”
For Sonny Detmer, the passing game has been a two-
edged sword. He’s won games with it — and lost jobs.
“I had always wanted to throw the ball more than
anyone else,” he said.
“Way back when, you were considered radical anti to
a certain degree had trouble getting jobs because of it.
People wanted to run the wishbone, what UT ran. I
didn’t get a lot of breaks job-wise because of it.”
During stints in the Continental Football League and
at San Antonio Central Catholic and Laredo Martin
high schools, Detmer pieced the elements of his twin-
back passing attack together.
By the time he arrived at San Antonio Southwest in
the mid-1980s, all the pieces were in place.
Astros down
Pirates 2-1,
ending streaks
PITTSBURGH (AP)-Danny
Darwin won his eight straight
f ame and Eric Yelding singled to
reak an eighth-inning tie, as the
Houston Astros ended Pitts
burgh’s six-game win streak
Tuesday night with a 2-1 victory.
The five-hit complete game,
the second by Darwin, also ended
the Astros seven-game losing
streak in Pittsburgh.
Darwin (9-1), 7-0 with a 1.51
ERA since becoming a starter on
July I, limited Pittsburgh to Jeff
King’s solo homer in the third.
He struck out four and walked
one while failing to allow more
than two runs for the ninth time
in his 10 starts.
Pirates rookie left-hander
Randy Tomlin didn’t allow a hit
until Franklin Stubbs’ two-out
double in the fifth. Making his
fourth major-league start, Tom
lin came out after giving up three
hits in seven innings.
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How does his garden grow?
A&M tackle spends summer handling roses
By DOUGLAS FILS
Of The Battalion Staff
While much of the nation’s Navy
is busy transporting soliders and war
supplies to the Middle East, Texas
A&M’s U.S.S. McCall delivered a
different kind of cargo to ports-of-
call in Bryan-College Station this
summer.
Aggie offensive tackle Matt
McCall, nicknamed “The U.S.S.” be
cause of his 6-8, 288-pound frame,
normally delivers crushing blocks
and outstanding pass blocking while
playing in A&M’s multi-talented of
fense.
But it seems McCall’s delivery tal
ents don’t lie in football alone.
The senior spent this summer ar
ranging and delivering flowers for
the Petal Patch Flower Shop in Col
lege Station.
Since McCall was staying in Col
lege Station this summer to drop
some unwanted pounds, he needed
a job for spending money. A coach
told him about the opening and
A&M got its very own version of
Merlin Olsen.
McCall said he delivered for most
of the summer but started arranging
flowers toward the end.
“We started running a special on a
dozen roses arrangement,” McCall
said. “It was selling real good so they
tought me how to arrange them.”
For one of the Southwest Confer
ence’s premier lineman, working in
a flower shop could create ridicule
and name-calling. McCall said his
teammates were quick to do just that
when two-a-days started.
“I’ve been taking some heat from
the guys already,” he said. “It didn’t
take long for the news to spread
around.
“(A&M offensive guard Mike)
Pappas has really been riding me
about it and I’m getting compared to
Merlin Olsen.”
McCall said the joking around is
all in good fun and lightens the
mood at practice.
“It’s been kind of neat getting all
this attention,” he said. “Besides, it
helps break up the monotony of two-
a-days.”
Preparing for those two-a-days
was the reason McCall stayed here
all summer. After weighing in at 314
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Texas A&M starting offensive tackle Matt McCall works on a
bouquet arrangement of roses at the Petal Patch Flower Shop.
pounds last season, McCall and the
rest of his comrades on the offensive
line decided it was time to make a
change.
McCall won consensus AI1-SWC
awards as a sophomore in 1988 and
was expected to challange for All-
American honors last year. How
ever, after the extra weight and a
slip from first to third in the SWC in
rushing yards per game, the best he
could get was a selection to the Asso
ciated Press’ second-team All-SWC.
After averaging 258.5 yards a
game in 1988, A&M finished 1989
with just 199.9 yards a game.
“We felt after last year we were
slowed down by all that extra
weightj” McCall said. “So we stayed
up here this summer helping eacli
other with watching our weight and
working out.”
McCall and teammate Keith Alex J
A&M’s offensive right guard, losta
combined 46 pounds this summer.
After weighing over 300 pounds
each last year there will be a lot less
to see on the right side of the line in
1990.
“We got with a few nutritionists to
help set up a diet for us to follow,'
Alex said. “We felt we didn’t do out
part last year and we’ve worked
really hard to improve.”
Other lineman such as Pappas,
tackle Jason Rockhold and reserve
Greg Lakin were also slimmint
down this summer. Rockhold
dropped out of the 300-pound dub,
losing 22 pounds.
A&M head coach R.C. Slocum
couldn’t be more pleased with hisof-
tensive line.
“Matt and the rest of the offensive
line worked extremely hard this
summer and showed a lot of discipli
ne,” Slocum said. “I know on many
occasions they were here at six in the
morning working out.”
McCall said the loss in wei
make the line quicker, and
they’re ready to get after someoppo
sition.
“We’re real anxious to see what we
can do,” he said. “We’ll be a lot
quicker, and it will help getting to
those little guys.”
This newfound quickness will lx
tested rather quickly. The starting
defensive line for season-opener op
pponent Hawaii averages about 2W
pounds.
“The guy I’ll be lining up againsi
in the Hawaii game starts about two
to-three yards off the ball,” McCal
said. “He plays like a linebacker.il
need that quick first step so I can
crush him or he’ll be gone.”
It’s been said that championship*
are won in the trenches. Great rum
ning backs and quarterbacks need
protection from their offensive
man to be effective.
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