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WHY NOT TRY THE BEST! 846-8719 or 846-8710 or 846-8718 UNIVERSITY TOWER LOBBY COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Memorial Student Center Black Awareness Committee presents: "From Disgrace to Amazing Grace" a motivational presentation featuring: Joe Clark Date: Mon., Nov. 12 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Rudder Theatre Admission: Free ^"The only thing that?' want people to say about me is that down on planet Earth, Joe Clark made a differ- \ence." y Stamp Out Swine Fever! Aggie Blood Drive November 12-16,1990 Commons 10-8 Academic Plaza 10-6 SBISA 10-6 Med. Sci. Library 12-8 Blocker 10-6 Another service of Alpha Phi Omega, Omega Phi Alpha, and Student Goverment THE BLOOD CENTER at Wadley Supported by <5^ NUTCRaCKCR BOLSHOI BALLET CRICOROVICH COMPANY Company of 60 Direct from the U.S.S.R. Yuri Crigorovich, Artistic Director & Choreographer NUTCRACKER PERFORMANCES Friday, November 23 - 8:00 P.M. Saturday, November 24 - 8:00 P.M. Sunday, November 25 - 2:00 P.M. & 8:00 P.M. Friday, November 30 - 8:00 P.M. Saturday, December 1 - 2:00 P.M. Saturday, December 1 - 8:00 P.M. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! BEST OF THE BOLSHOI PERFORMANCES FEATURING A MIXED REPERTOIRE AND ACT II OF SWAN LAKE! Tuesday, November 27 - 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, November 28 - 7:00 P.M. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! CALL THE MSC BOX OFFICE (409) 845-1234 OR FOLEY'S IN POST OAK MALL MSC OPERA & PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY Page 8 The Battalion Wednesday, November?, 1990 Cowboys ready for 49ers IRVING (AP) — Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson said Tuesday that his downtrodden Cowboys “will be pumped” playing the unbeaten San Fran cisco 49ers, but ad mitted it would take something from the NFL twi light zone for his team to upset the defending world champions. “Our players know that some times strang things happen,” John son said of a possible upset. “Granted, it would be a strange thing if we beat the 49ers.” The 3-6 Cowboys and the 8-0 49ers meet on Sunday night at 7 o’clock in a rare primetime television (ESPN) appearance for Dallas. San Francisco is a 10-point favorite. Johnson said San Francisco might be the best NFL team of all time. “Our guys are upbeat and looking forward to playing the 49ers who just might be the best team to ever play the game," Johnson said. "I know we’U give a maximum effort." Ironically, the game will mark the Texas Stadium debut of Montana. San Francisco and Dallas have played in Texas Stadium just once since 1980. That was last year, and Montana didn’t play. Sun Devil Sta dium in Phoenix is the only other NFL stadium where Montana has never played. “He’s the best quarterback I’ve ever seen,” Johnson said. Johnson said defensive players can read most quarterback’s eyes, but not Montana’s. “He’s the most difficult quar terback I’ve ever seen seen trying to read his eyes,” Johnson said. “If you try to read Montana, you’re going to be wrong.” Johnson said he hopes that some day Troy Aikman can become an other Montana. Johnson TCU’s Vogler named Player of Week after 690-yard pass bonanza FORT WORTH (AP) — Matt Vogler figured he would spend the rest of the season on the bench as Leon Clay led the Texas Christian Horned Frogs to one comeback after another. That was before Clay broke his thumb two weeks ago in a 26-21 loss to Baylor. Vogler, a junior transfer from Auburn, got the call against the Houston Cougars on Saturday and he did something no quarterback had ever done before: passed for 680 yards in one game. Vogler earned The Associated Press Southwest Conference Offen sive Player of the Week award for the performance. He became the first to win the honor with a losing team. The AP SWC Defensive Player of the Week honor went to Boone Pow ell, a linebacker for the University of Texas. Powell broke open a tight game in Lubbock by returning an in terception for a touchdown and making a crucial sack that led to a blocked field goal in the Longhorns’ 41-22 victory over the Red Raiders. TCU lost 56-35 to the unbeaten Cougars but not before giving them a big scare. Vogler left a trail of shattered NCAA records. He had 44 comple tions on an NCAA-record 79 at tempts. His five touchdown passes tied a school record. The passes went 80, 88, 5, 9 and 15 yards. “We’ve found a confident quar terback and the team has confidence in him,” said TCU coach Jim Wacker. “Vogler did a tremendous job. And I think it also shows that our triple shoot offense is for real.” TCU became the first team to out- pass Houston (690-563) since the Cougars began running the run- and-shoot offense. “It was a fun game,” Vogler said. “I’ve got mixed feelings, of course, because I wish we could have won. We gave it a great shot.” Vogler started TCU’s second game of the season but lost the job when Clay came off the bench to rally the Frogs to a come-from-be- hind victory over Missouri. “I tried to make the most of my opportunity,” Vogler said. TCU’s school-record 739 yards in total offense was an NCAA record for a losing team. “This is not a good time to be a de fensive coordinator in college foot ball,” Wacker said. “Watching Hous ton is what got us interested in the passing game.” It’s the third time a TCU player has won Offensive Player of the Week honors this year. Clay won it twice with his heroics. Powell is a strongside linebacker who beat out Jason Burleson for the job after missing part of the 1989 season with a cracked elbow. He missed spring practice with a shoul der injury. Only probation stands in way of Cougars’ title Associated Press If college football’s national championship picture seems muddled, it’s perfectly clear in Houston, where the Cougars are the only undefeated and untied team in the country. And also uninvited. The Cougars, serving a three-year NCAA probation, are barred from the bowls, but not from The Asso ciated Press poll. After winning eight straight games and leading the nation in passing offense with 448.8 yards per game and total offense with 564.0 yards per game, they are ranked No. 3 behind Notre Dame and Washington in the poll of broadcasters and sports writers. Coach John Jenkins thinks they ought to be better than that. “We should be ranked No. 1,” he said. “If we’re the only team without a blemish, we ought to be ranked No. 1.” There is, however, one blemish — Pils. Continued from page 7 start, Davis put together one of the finest classes for A&M in recent years. He brought in five junior college transfers for this year, but the best is in what he’s already garnered for next year. Two big transfers from the tradition-rich Big East Confer ence in Tony Scott (Syracuse) and David Edwards (Georgetown) are al ready lined up for 1991-92 and both are currently practicing with the team. Also ready for next year will be 6- 4 Artie Griffin from San Antonio, who is ineligible for this year for fail ing to meet entrance requirments. Davis already has non-binding oral commitments for the early signing date from 6-5 Damon Johnson, from Converse Judson, and 6-9 Kevin Barker from Longview Pine Tree. But those things are for next sea son —what A&M as a student body needs to concentrate on is this sea son. It may take Davis and his staff one to four years to get this program a probation cloud that hangs over all the accomplishments. The 15-page, single-spaced bill of particulars in Houston’s folder at the NCAA charges the Cougar program with all manner of misdemeanors. “The (infractions) committee de termined that a considerable num ber of major violations of NCAA leg islation occurred in the university’s football program,” the report said. “These violations included the provision of cash and extra benefits to student-athletes on occasions so numerous that the former head football coach and his assistants, even after they began to tell the truth, were unable to recall the num ber of occasions they gave money to student-athletes.” Those crimes led to the NCAA probation and the decision of the American Football Coaches Associa tion to bar Houston from any hon ors, including voting for the Cou gars in the United Press See Coogs/Page 9 on us feet, so the team will need sup port from the word go. The team may look pretty bad at times, but somebody, somewhere must have faith in a belief that things will turn around and the Aggies will become a force in collegiate basket ball. Look no further than the blueprints for the new $35 million Special Events Center and there is evidence that someone believes in this dream. Another reason for optimism is Davis, who at 30 is considered to one of the brightest young coaches in America. In two years at Idaho Davis was 50-12 and he took the Vandals to two NCAA tournament appear ances. So give this new coaching regime a chance, he doesn’t have a awful lot to work with, but the man carries with him an aura of success. He’s been successful wherever he’s coached and he’s certainly gained the confidence of whoever’s footing the bill for that new arena. “A quarterback has to know when his people are going to be, and that! one of the problems with our oi fense,” Johnson said. "We’rejusttot inconsistent, and it hurts Troy, Ht has to learn to scan the field likt Montana does and keep thedefenit from reading his eyes.” Johnson said the Cowboys arejmi about over Sunday's 25-9 loss to tin New York Jets. “The team is excited about beint on national TV, and I think we wi play well against the 49ers,” Johnsot said. The 49ers have won an NFL re cord 14 consecutive road games and have conquered 16 consecutive op. ponents, including playoff games, The Cowboys got some good netts from the team doctors on Tuesday: Offensive tackle Mark Tuinei won! have to go on the injured reserve list because of an injury to his right knee. "There’s not as much swelling as there had been, and we are setting! target date of Thanksgiving to get him back into the lineup,” Johnsorl said. Rice still taking SMU game seriously HOUSTON (AP) — It’s been a while since the Rice Owls football team had to worry about overcon- j fide nee. But that’s exactly what has coach Fred Goldsmith concerned as Rice (4-5) prepares to play host t to Southern Methodist (1-7)Sat urday with a chance to post a win ning season for the first time since 1963. “We haven’t won two games over Division I opponents since 1985,” Goldsmith said. “We’re not good enough to let down. It's been 11 years since we won five football games. If we don’t get No. 5 we won’t have a chance ata winning record.” Not since the Jess Neely era has a Rice team finished with a win ning record. Neely’s 1963 Owls finished the season 6-4, and then began the Owls’ 27-year non-win ning streak. A winning season became a possibility with Rice's 19-11 vic tory over Ai kansas last week in Little Rock. After Saturday’s game in Rice Stadium the Owls close out the season at home against the Baylor Bears. The Owl's triumph over the two-time defending SWC cham pion Razorbacks was their first against Arkansas in a decade. Goldsmith disagrees with the early line saying the Owls are 22- point favorites. “I see it as an even game," Goldsmith said. Rice broke an 18-game losing streak with a 35-6 victory over Southern Methodist last season. It was SMU’s first game coming off the NCAA death penalty for rules violations. “I sense that they think if they are going to get a victory 1 in the Southwest Conference, it is going to be against Rice,” Goldsmith said. Still, the thought of a winning season is tantalizing to the Rice players. “I’m sure it’s in the back of people’s minds to win six,” senior wide receiver Courtney Cravin said. “But we’ve got to take it to SMU. A 6-5 record can’t come if we don’t take it one step at a time.” Rockets outrun Nugget system, 145-135 HOUSTON (AP) — Kenny Smitli had 35 points, including seven foul shots in the final 1:09 Tuesday nigh! and the Houston Rockets became the latest team to spoil Denver's high-scoring system, beating the Nuggets 145-135. Denver, in its first season under run-and-gun coach Paul Westhead, is 0-3. The Nuggets are giving upar average of 149 points per game. Otis Thorpe had 21 points and 22 rebounds and Akeem Olajuwon added 24 points and 13 rebounds as Houston won its first game in three tries. The Rockets led by as many as 16 points in the first half and were ahead 111-101 entering the fourth quarter. Denver cut Houston’s lead to 136- 133 with 1:41 to play on two free throws by Walter Davis but Smith kept Houston ahead with three foul shots. Both teams had six players score in double figures. Todd Lichti scored 27 points and Orlando Wool ridge had 26 for Denver. The Nuggets reduced their deficit to 115-109 with 10:05 to on a basket by Avery Johnson, but a basket by Olajuwon and a basket and two free throws by Thorpe kept the Rockets in the lead at 121-109 with 8:17 to go.