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COMPANY (LOCATION) DATE(S) DISCIPLINE(S) AMOCO CHEMICALS (Texas City, TX) Oct. 17 CHEN, ELEN, MEEN AMOCO CORPORATION - IS (Houston, TX) Oct. 11 BANA, BSCS, CPSC AMOCO CORPORATION - IS/TC (Houston, TX, Chicago, IL.) Oct. 25 ENTC AMOCO OIL REFINING (Texas City, TX) Oct. 23, 24 CHEN, CEEN, MEEN AMOCO OIL -R&TE (Chicago, IL) Oct. 30 CHEN, CEEN, ELEN, MEEN AMOCO PIPELINE COMPANY (Chicago, IL) Oct. 25 MEEN, ELEN, CEEN AMOCO PRODUCTION (Houston, TX) Oct. 9, 10 GEOL, GEOP AMOCO PRODUCTION (Houston, TX) Oct. 10, 11 CHEN, ELEN, MEEN, PETE AMOCO PRODUCTION (Houston, TX) Oct. 25, 26 BUSI, EGON, FINC, MGMT, MKTG AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/H/V MAST Photo by Pbelaa M. BaM Anthony Williams has become the heart of the Aggie defense. Williams leads young Aggie ‘D’ by example ayNACMA SA8AWALA Of The BattaHon Staff . Call him the hitting machine. If something moves, Anthony Williams will hit it. Hard. And hell love every minute of it. famie Gill knows that all too well, The Texas Tech quarterback, listed as questionable for Satur day's football game against Texas A&M, was flattened by Williams in the fourth quarter of last year’s 27-24 Aggie loss in Lubiwck- Gill had to leave the game. Wil liams stayed in to finish his first collegiate start and one year later, the junior linebacker has become the inspirational leader for a young Aggie defense. '‘That's my whole game ... to play on emotion,” Williams said. “You just get so intense as the game progresses.” As hb career progresses, Wil liams has been developing an in tensity second to none on the team. Last Saturday, the 6*2, 245- pound linebacker looked up a« the scoreboard in the fourth quarter of A&M's loss to Loui siana State. The Aggies had just scored their onilv touchdown. The score was 17-tt. Five minutes remained. .. “I looked up and asked, ‘Can we pull this off?’ and then my conscience said. ‘You know better than to talk like that,”' Williams said. “Even if there’s one second left, you always have a second chanceof pulling it off.” But A&M. didn't pull it off, and the Aggies wound up walking away from Tiger Stadium with an emotional loss. On the sidelines Williams dropped his head in disappoint ment, hut he said he knew things plavs aren’t going right, Williams sain, a player can’t let his frustra tion show. “(The defense) looks to you to guide them,” he said. “If you’re frustrated, then the rest of tte team gets frustrated and none of us would be able to get anvtftiiig done with all of the bickering Battalion file photo by F. Joe This hit by Williams knocked Tech quarterback Jamie Gill out of the game for a few plays in last year's 27-24 A&M loss. going on. So Williams kept his compo sure throughout the game against LSI’, wrapping up the Tiger of fense with a career-high 18 tackles and forcing two fumbles. Head coach R.C. Slocum said he has great confidence in Wil liams’ ability both as a player and a leader and believes Williams could become one of the best lint backers the Aggies have had. Ask Williams and he’ll say ik same. "'t hose guys had their lime light.” Williams said, “and maybe mine will come, but 1 wanttosur- pass everything that they accom plished ... fm not saying that I'm tnurh better or they’re much bet ter than me, but 1 want to become more than what they were ’’ WUUams is well on his way to establishing his name in the A&M recordbooks. He leads the Aceies in tackles for the year with 46nis — *33 unassisted. Pretty good numbers for a ju nior who saw his first collegiate start just last, year against Tech and who’s quickly become a dooii- nant force on the A&M squad. 'Tve always played that way," Williams said. “It’s in my nature. "My mother raised me to be lieve that if you're going to do things, do them the right way and do them to the best of your abili- abc the thr em Pitt tha for beg Stai tha abc but f would get better. “The sun's still going to come up tomorrow regardless of what Texas A&M does,*' Williams said. “We just try to take it and learn from any experience we have — win or lose.” As a leader on the Aggie team, Williams has become a figure for the defense to look up to. When ties. Williams said he may never peak his abilities, hut rather have a constant build up of hispiay. “I think I’ll always get better." Williams said, “I am pretty consis tent right now, but rd like »tab ir rip to another level.” '1 Would Williams ever want ro give up his responsibilities as a leader to just, concentrate on his own game? 1 1 “Never ... 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