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ednesday, October 3,1990
Sports Editor Nadja Sabawala 845-2688
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inference race
for Cotton Bowl
toughens up for Ags
Douglas
Pits
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and, its time to start
narching to Dallas
or the Mobil Cotton
owl and a return to
[lory for the Texas
t&M football team.
While A&M’s
oss last weekend to
ouisiana State
filed any hopes of a
lational championship, there’s still the
natter of returning to capture the
iouthwest Conference title for the first
ime since 1987.
Texas Tech comes to town this week-
nd and the Aggies should have no
noblem getting psyched up for this one.
First and foremost, A&M needs a vic-
ory to get back on the winning track and
leaded back up the charts.
Secondly, the Aggies will be looking to
venge last year’s 27-24 last minute loss
othe Red Raiders in Lubbock.
There’s been plenty of talk about the
fggies not being as good as they look on
»aper because they haven’t played any-
me tough and were beaten by the Tigers
-ateam that lost to Southeastern Con-
erence lowlife — Vanderbilt.
But by no means is that any reason to
end off any red flares and start worry-
ng about the competency of this team.
t&M lost to a talented and a very emo-
ionally charged LSU team that was hell-
lenton proving their worth in front of a
lome crowd.
That game is gone and it’s time to for
get about the opportunity lost until next
ear, when the Bayou Bengals return to
iggieland.
Tech, although 1-3 and 0-2 in confer-
nce play, always seems to play its best
gainst the Aggies and this year should
le no different.
Its 1-3 record is somewhat deceptive,
:onsidering the Red Raiders perfor-
nance this year.
Tech lost a hard fought game at Ohio
itateon a fourth quarter punt return for
touchdown. They piled up 476 yards
igainst Houston in a 51-35 loss and
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Slocum: QBs or not QBs
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M freshman quarterback Steve
Emerson will be redshirted for the 1990
season and Jeff Granger could follow, head
football coach R.C. Slocum said Tuesday.
The two freshmen recruits have not
played this season. Slocum said Emerson, a
6-2, 195 quarterback from Aldine MacAr-
thur, would “definitely redshirt,” but that it
was too soon to tell if the 6-4, 193-pound
Granger also would redshirt.
“Emerson will definitely redshirt, but it’s
still up in the air about what we’ll do with
Granger,” Slocum said at his weekly press
conference. “You’d like to redshirt him as
well.”
Granger and Emerson were the only
quarterbacks the Aggies signed in their
1990 recruiting class, which was ranked in
the top five classes in the nation. Granger of
Orangefield was considered the state’s No.
2 quarterback prospect behind Huntsville’s
Steve Clements, who signed with Texas.
But Slocum’s comments Tuesday on
A&M quarterbacks weren’t limited to Emer
son and Granger. He also discussed starter
Lance Pavlas’ direction of the offense —“or
lack thereof — in last Saturday’s 17-8 loss to
Louisiana State.
Pavlas, who is the No. 2-rated quar-
See QBs/Page 8
Battalion file photo by F. Joe
Quarterback Lance Pavlas must shake last weekend’s three-interception
game from his mind while preparing for Texas Tech, R.C. Slocum says.
Former Heisman Trophy winner teamless
Oilers place RB Rozier on waivers
HOUSTON (AP) — Running back Mike
Rozier, a Pro Bowl selection in 1987 and
1988 but more recently a seldom-used sub
stitute in the Houston Oilers’ run-and-
shoot offense, was waived Tuesday.
Rozier, who led the Oilers in rushing
four straight years, had 10 carries for 42
yards and no touchdowns in Houston’s four
games this season and he caught 5 passes
for 46 yards.
General Manager Mike Holovak failed in
attempts to trade Rozier.
“If you look back at my quotes from
training camp, I said at the time that in this
offense we really only needed two backs,”
Holovak said. “There’s just not enough
work to go around for three.”
Rozier was a contract holdout at the start
of the 1989 season and then missed the
early part of the season with a knee injury.
He appeared in 12 games and finished with
301 rushing yards on 88 carries, the lowest
totals of his NFL career.
Rozier’s playing time this season
dropped off even more when new Coach
Jack Pardee installed the one-back run-and-
shoot offense.
The Oilers started training camp with
four veterans battling for the starting S-
back spot, which places a high premium on
blocking.
Alonzo Highsmith was the projected
starter but he was slowed in camp by inju
ries and eventually traded to the Dallas
Cowboys. Lorenzo White earned the start
ing spot with Allen Pinkett in reserve.
White leads the Oilers in rushing with 80
yards on 34 carries.
Rozier signed a one-year contract with
the Oilers for $600,000, making him an ex
pensive reserve.
“In no way were finances a consideration
in this decision,” Holovak said. “The bot
tom line is we don’t go three deep at any po
sition on the ball club. Why should we be
three deep at running back. We don’t need
a third running back who doesn’t play spe
cial teams.”
The Oilers also waived quarterback Don
McPherson, leaving two vacancies on the
roster.
Former NBA
commissioner
O’Brien buried
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) —Larry
O’Brien, who served as commissioner of
the NBA and engineered John F. Ken-
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where he learned how to get out the
vote.
“How appropriate that this funeral is
celebrated in the city of his birth in this,
the church of his baptism, in the com
pany of friends who rejoiced in his
achievements and who, to the end,
proudly claimed him as their own,” the
Most Rev. Joseph Maguire, Roman
Catholic bishop of Springfield, said in
his homily.
The son of an immigrant saloon
keeper and Democratic party activist,
O’Brien became the confidant of presi
dents. And as Lyndon Johnson’s con
gressional liaison, he engineered passage
of such wide-ranging social legislation as
the Peace Corps, Medicare and the
model cities program. O’Brien died
Thursday of cancer in New York, He
was 73.
Among the hundreds of people at St.
Michael’s Cathedral were Ron Brown,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee; NBA commissioner David
Stern; Gov. Michael Dukakis; Irish Con
sul General Liam Canniffe, and Joseph
Califano, who was Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare in the Johnson
Administration. Honorary pallbearers
included U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy
and his nephew, U.S. Rep. Joseph Ken
nedy II.
“He was really a member of the fam
ily,” Senator Kennedy said. “He shared
the triumphs and many of the sad
nesses.”
“His great contribution was to always
make sure ordinary people were in
volved in the election process,” Rep.
Kennedy said, “He didn’t pay so much
attention to the media. He was a great
believer in neighborhood organization
and ordinary people. And that kind of
political campaign will be missed.”
O’Brien left politics in 1972 for Wall
Street, then was named NBA commis
sioner in 1975, when free agency and big
money were reshaping pro sports.
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COMPANIES REGISTERED FOR ACE 1990
September 26,1990
Agricultural Workers Mutual Auto
Insurance Company
American Cyanamid
American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers
/Society of Real Estate Appraisers
Barefoot Grass Lawn Service
Caprock Industries, Inc.
Cargill, Inc.- CMD
Cargill, Inc. - Nutrena Feeds
ChemLawn Services Corporation
Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Collingwood Grain Inc.
Communicating for Agriculture
Deere & Company
Dekalb Swine Breeders
Design Foods
Dow Elanco
Dupont
Earth Tone Development
Environmental Care, Inc.
Excel Corporation
Green Teams, Inc.
IBP, Inc.
International Agricultural Exchange
Las Colinas Landscapes
Lone Star Growers
Maintain Incorporated
Mallscapes
Mars
MSD AGVET
National Park Service, Big Thicket National
Preserve
Northrup King
Pfizer
Plantation Foods, Inc.
Purina Mills, Inc.
Sandoz Crop Protection Corporation
San Jose Cattle Co.
Sara Lee Sausage/Jimmy Dean
Smith Realty Consultants
Society of Texas A&M Real Estate Professionals
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas Chapter, American Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Appraisers
Texas Parks & Wildlife
Texas Society of Professional Land Managers
The Spencer Company
Touch of Green, Inc.
Trees, Inc.
Tri-Hill Enterprises
Tropical Plant Rentals, Inc. - Houston Division
USD A, Agricultural Marketing Service, Poultry
Grading Branch
Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association of Texas