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owboys driven off by Eagles; Oilers drop to lowly Jets
IRVING (AP) — Randall Cunningham
aved the Philadelphia Eagles’ season on
Sunday with a masterpiece of a drive that
equired every one of his considerable ath-
etic skills.
Cunningham, working against the clock
ivith a bruised hand and knee, took the Ea-
;les 85 yards in 13 plays for a much-needed
1-20 victory over tne Dallas Cowboys.
The payoff came on a 10-yard touch-
lown pass to Calvin Williams with 44 sec-
mds left. Cunningham passed for 66 yards
ind scrambled for 10 more on the drive.
“This ranks right up there with the best
jfour comeback wins,” Cunningham said.
This was a major gut check and we pulled
(toff.
“Our two minute drill worked great and
jur feeling in the huddle was we weren’t
oncerned. We knew we could do it.”
The Eagles, earning their first victory
over an NFC Eastern Division foe in four
tries, increased their record to 3-4 while the
Cowboys dropped to 3-5 with their sixth
straight loss to Philadelphia.
Cunningham, who also suffered a blow
to the head during the game, said, “I was
close to coming out of the game because my
knee hurt so bad. But I stuck it out.”
Cornerback Issiac Holt’s blocked punt set
up Emmitt Smith’s 3-yard touchdown run
with 4:02 to go and gave Dallas a 20-14
lead.
“It looked like the blocked punt was
going to kill us but Randall put together
one heck of a drive,” Philadelphia coach
Buddy Ryan said. “Dallas played a great
game. We were very fortunate to pull it out
at the end.”
Then he added, “That’s the way we seem
to do things. It was a big game for us and
our season.”
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Oilers
and Warren Moon had the numbers while
the New York Jets and Ken O’Brien got the
victory Sunday.
The Oilers’ run-and-shoot offense out-
gained New York 425-229 in total yards,
but O’Brien’s 42-yard touchdown pass to A1
Toon and rookie Darrell Davis’ fumble re
covery in the end zone lifted the Jets to a
17-12 victory.
The Jets (3-5) snapped a three-game los
ing streak and scored their first fourth-
quarter touchdown of the season when Da
vis, a defensive end from Texas Christian,
sacked Moon for a 6-yard loss and then re
covered his fumble for a touchdown with
13:34 to play.
That gave the Jets a 14-12 lead and
O’Brien’s 28-yard pass to Toon helped set
up Pat Leahy’s 32-yard field goal with 44
seconds left in the game.
“It’s taken awhile but we’re all finally be
ginning to understand what it takes,” Toon
said. “We’re all beginning to realize that it
will work and we’re gaining confidence
each time out.”
The Jets lost three games after leading in
the fourth quarter this season and rookie
head coach Bruce Coslet was beginning to
wonder what it took to get a victory.
“We’ve been playing good football the
past couple of weeks but this time we were
fortunate to get in the win column,” Coslet
said. “Those guys are going to the play
offs.”
The Oilers had 28 first downs to 13 for
the Jets and the Oilers drove to the Jets 27-
yard line in the final seconds. Coslet- could
see Jets’ fourth quarter woes returning.
“It wasn’t the way you planned, but we’re
not going to give it back,” Coslet said.
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Texas A&M moved one step
loser toward a possible Cotton Bowl
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lice Owls 41-15 on a record-break-
ngday.
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teat Southern Methodist, Arkansas,
Texas Christian and Texas and hope
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The win brought the Aggies out
a four game slide, which saw the
team go 1-2-1 and fall out of the na
tional polls. Slocum, who said he
never really felt the team was in a
slump, said the win puts A&M back
the right track.
Winning always takes care of a
tot of ailments,” he said. “If we had a
slump, it’s because we weren’t emo
tionally charged.
“If we kick the field goal against
Baylor and make a play here or
there against Houston and we’re
number six in the nation (not Hous-
and nobody would have ever
heard of a slump.”
Slocum expressed a bit of ill feel
ings about those who declared the
Aggies overrated and in trouble over
the last couple of weeks.
“It’s irritating to me when you go
Lewis puts mark
into books after
stellar show
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
Some people wish upon stars for their
dreams to come true. Others’ dreams come
true and they become the stars.
Saturday was Darren Lewis’ day to shine.
In Texas A&M’s 41-15 romping of Rice,
the senior running back became the South
west Conference’s all-time leading rusher
with 4,453 career yards
— 176 came while rush
ing against the Owls.
“It takes a lot of hard
work to get there,” Le
wis said. “You’ve got to
really lay it on the line
to get where you’re
going in life. That’s one
of the things that I’ve
done while here at
A&M, to really work
hard and concentrate
on helping my team.”
Lewis, at 6-0 and
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pounds, has
A&M defensive lineman Kevin Tucker (90) brings down Rice quarterback Donald Hollas for a loss in the Aggies’ 41-15 romp of the
romp of the Owls Saturday at Kyle Field. The victory brings A&M’s hopes of a Southwest Conference championship closer.
and play Houston in one great football game,”
he said, “then come back and play against a
good Baylor team and have some people start
saying we’re in a slump. I don’t see us having
any major problems.”
Visions of keeping A&M in a “slump”
surely danced through the minds of the Owls
(3-5, 1-4 in Southwest Conference) Saturday
as they jumped out to a 12-7 first quarter lead.
However, A&M would not cooperate as they
exploded for 24 second-quarter points.
The Aggies opened the game with a flash as
Randy Simmons returned the opening kickoff
53 yards to the Rice 35. Simmons and fellow
tailback Keith McAfee replaced wide receivers
Shane Garrett and Cornelius Patterson as
kickoff returners. Simmons responded by tak
ing four returns for 130 yards.
Four plays later, after quarterback Bucky
Richardson had already run once for 30
yards, the senior starter kept on the option for
a two-yard touchdown run. An extra point by
Layne Talbot made the score 7-0 with only
1:45 elapsed in the game.
The Owls came right back with a 12-play,
72-yard drive capped off on a one yard sneak
by quarterback Donald Hollas. Three A&M
penalties yielded two first downs that aided
the drive. However, similar to how the Aggies
opened last week’s game with Baylor, line
backer William Thomas blocked Clint Par
sons’ extra point to make the score 7-6.
After a Darren Lewis fumble halted A&M’s
second drive. Rice drove 79 yards in just six
plays to take a 12-7 lead after a missed two-
point conversion. The Owls would not score
again until there was only 1:43 remaining in
the fourth quarter.
Behind the arm of Lance Pavlas, who alter
nated every two series with Richardson, and
See Game/Page 11
reached the top of conference records with
four games remaining in the regular season
and a chance to post enough yardage to let
his record stand for some time to come.
Averaging 141.5 yards per game, Lewis
has a chance to seal his record well, but he
said it’s not his top priority to run up the
numbers.
“I’m not really concerned about the yard
age to try and put it out of reach because re
cords are made to be broken,” Lewis said. “I
feel like Tm a competitor and I’m not going
to say that I’m better than anybody.”
Lewis’ yards Saturday put him past the
list’s No. 2 Earl Campbell of Texas and No.
1 Eric Dickerson of Southern Methodist.
Campbell rushed for 4,443 yards during his
See Record/Page 11
Staley drops in second round
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Lynn Staley, of the Texas A&M women’s
tennis team, was defeated Friday by Kansas’
Eveline Hamers, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, in second
round action of the Riviera All-American
Championships.
Staley beat Hamers, ranked ninth in the
tournament, earlier this season at the Long
horn All-American Classic.
“It was a hard-fought match,” A&M
coach Bobby Kleinecke said. “We had our
chances, but Hamers was hitting the ball
extrmemly well today.”
The loss marked Staley’s first of the fall
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APTop 25
Htr*’* how the top 25 teems In The Associated Press’ college football poll fared Saturday:
Rank, team, result:
1. Virginia (7-0) did not play
2. Auburn(6-0-1) del. Mississippi 17-16
3. Metre Dame (6-1) del. Pittsburgh 31-22
4. Nebraska (8-0) def. Iowa St. 45-13
5. Illinois (6-1) def. Wisconsin 21 -3
Next opponent:
No. 16 Georgia Tech
at No. 12 Florida
at Navy
No. 10 Colorado
No. 15 Iowa
6. Houston (7-0) def. Arkansas
7. Washington (7-1) def. California 46-7
8. Miami, Fla. (5-2) def. Texas Tech 45-10
9. Brigham Young (6-1) def. New Mexico 55-31
10. Colorado (7-1-1) def. No. 22 Oklahoma 32-23
at No. 24 Texas Christian
No. 23 Arizona
Pittsburgh
at Air Force
at No. 4 Nebraska
11. Tennessee (4-1-2) did not play
12. Florida St. (5-2) def. Louisiana St. 42-3
13. Texas (5-1) def. Southern Methodist 52-3
14. Rorida (6-1) did not play
15. Iowa (6-1) def. Northwestern 56*14
Temple
at South Carolina
at Texas Tech
No. 2 Auburn
at No. 5 Illinois
16. Georgia Tech (6-0-1) def. Duke 48-31
17. Mississippi (7-1) def. Vanderbilt 14-13
18. Wyoming (8-0) def. Texas-EI Paso 17-10
19. Clemson (7-2) def. Wake Forest 24-6
20. Michigan (4-3) def. Indiana 45-19
at No. 1 Virginia
at Louisiana St.
at Colorado St.
North Carolina
at Purdue
21. Southern Cal (6-2) def. Arizona St. 13-6
22. Oklahoma (5-3) lost to No. 10 Colorado 32-23
23. Arizona (5-2) def. Washington St. 42-34
24. Texas Christian (5-2) lost to Baylor 27-21
25. Oregon (6-2) def. Stanford 31-0
California
at Missouri
at No. 7 Washington
at No. 6 Houston
UCLA
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) —Der
rick Coleman apologized Sunday and so did
id othei
other New Jersey Nets’ ex-
Willis Reed an
ecutives.
The welcome party for the NBA’s No. 1
draft pick was anything but a party with less
than a week to go be
fore the Nets’ season
opener.
Derrick Coleman was
late and no one was
happy, particularly the
Nets, who are going to
need a a lot of help to
avoid being the worst
team in the league
again.
Coleman was going
to be part of the solu
tion. Instead, he’s be
come part of the prob
lem.
The NCAA’s all-time
leading rebounder
missed training camp
and said he won’t be at
full speed for two to
three weeks. That
might be a little late for
the Nets.
“I never thought it
would take this long,
but I’m glad it’s over,” Coleman said Sun
day after signing a five-year deal that will
pay him at least $15 million.
“Sure, we’re a little disappointed,” said
Bob Casciola, the Nets’ chief operating offi
cer. “We wanted very badly to get this done
Coleman
sooner. But it just didn’t work out.”
It didn’t work out because the Nets and
Coleman’s agent, Harold MacDonald, were
far apart at the start of negotiations.
“When this thing began there was a large
difference between us,” Nets owner Alan
Aufzien said. “But the
final contract is a good
compromise for every
one.”
Coleman, the 6-foot-
10 forward who set all
the scoring and re
bounding records at
Syracuse, reportedly
will receive about $2.5
million this season. He
also will get a $ 1 million
signing bonus and his
contract is laced with
incentives for making
the all-rookie team, be
ing named rookie of
the year and being
ranked in the top five
in scoring and re
bounding.
The deal to sign Co
leman was completed
Wednesday but the
Nets had to wait until
Sunday to fit him into
their salary cap. Nets spokesman John
Mertz said the team would annouce several
player moves by Monday.
The first four years of the contact are re
portedly guaranteed. The Nets have the
option to pick up the fifth year.
Mudd captures
Nabisco crown
after playoff hole
HOUSTON (AP) — Jodie Mudd
lodged one shot between a photogra
pher’s stomach and his belt, hit another
tell out of bounds and still went on to
win the biggest prize in American golf.
“I’m bewildered how I can play a
front side like that and win the golf tour
nament,” Mudd said Sunday after his
one-hole playoff victory over Billy May-
fair in the Nabisco Championships.
“Remarkable,” he said, and shook his
head. “There was all kinds of garbage
going on.”
Mudd, however, put his vaiious front
nine adventures out of his mind and
birdied the last three holes he played —
the 17th and 18th of regulation — and
the first playoff hole.
“I really didn’t think I had that kind
of game,” said Mudd, who had won only
three previous titles in a nine-year PGA
Tour career.
From a monetary standpoint, this was
the biggest of them all. His 15-foot play
off birdie putt secured the first prize of
$450,000 and another $40,000 from a
year-long bonus pool that also closed in
this season-ending event.
So, from a position on the front nine
where he thought he had bought the
farm, he’s now in position to buy one.
He said he has his eye on a 200-acre
farm in Kentucky and has his big check
earmarked for that.
While Mudd and Mayfair was strug
gling for the title over the back nine,
Greg Norman was simply struggling.
He never really got into it, matched
par 71 and finished in a tie for seventh at
279, six strokes out of the playoff.