Sports
Thursday, October 24, 1991
The Battalion
Page 3
Houston's guns
aren't loaded
this season
T he Texas A&M-Houston football
game has been kind of like an
Old West shootout over the last
couple of years.
But this year, only one team will
be playing with a loaded gun.
Remember back in 1989 when
Heisman-stud Andre Ware brought
his eighth-ranked Cougars to Kyle
Field?
Ware ended up spending more
time on his back that game than he is
spending now on the bench for the
Detroit Lions. The Aggies blitzed on
just about every play, sacking Ware
six times and holding the Run-and-
Shoot to 369 yards, its lowest total of
the year.
But the Cougars were still in the
game until late in the fourth quarter,
before former linebacker Aaron Wal
lace leveled Ware and ended any
chance for a Cougar victory.
Last season the Cougars turned the
tables on the Aggies in a high scoring
affair, 36-31.
The game was mired by eight Ag
gie turnovers. A&M twice blew a 17
point lead and allowed Houston to
come back late for the win.
But those games are all in the past.
Saturday's game will look nothing like
that of the last two.
This year A&M has a good team.
The Cougars don't.
The Cougars carry a 2-4 record to
the game with impressive victories
over Louisiana Tech and Southern
Methodist University.
The big, bad Cougar offense has
See Andro/ Page 4
Writing the script
Toledo strives for
creativity in
offensive scheme
By Scott Wudel
The Battalion
The day was Tuesday. It was the
day of the week when all of the hungry
sportswriters from around the state
come to A&M to interview players and
coaches and get the latest bite on the Ag
gies. And there's also the free meal.
Offensive coordinator Bob Toledo sat
at a large wood table at the front of the
media room with a handful of writers
gathered around him. The coach fielded
questions until there weren't any left.
The writers disbanded from the table
and Toledo looked for the quickest way
out of the room.
There was a door right behind him,
and he pushed his way through it. It
was the emergency exit that Toledo had
found, and the alarm sounded when he
opened it. The surprised coach flinched,
then laughed it off and stepped out the
door while others rushed in to see what
the small commotion was all about.
People had taken notice of Toledo.
He had taken a different path from all of
the rest. It was a departure from the
routine. He had strayed from the norm.
There wasn't anything unique about
that day. All season, all 23 years of his
coaching career, Toledo has prided him
self on being a little unusual when it
comes to the game pf football.
The coach has become a schemer in
the big chess match. He has used the el
ement of surprise to his advantage. He's
been able to write the perfect script —
the one where the good guys are able to
come out on top in the end.
This year the saga continues.
"Better than expected," Toledo said,
surprised himself of the success the
group of young faces has had. "This is
the youngest offensive team I've ever
been associated with. And I've been do
ing it for 23 years."
Toledo has spent the last three years
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the A&M football team. Toledo's creative play calling has surprised Aggie opponents this year
and changed the complexion of the team's offense.
Braves slip
past Twins
again, 3-2
ATLANTA (AP) - Finally, Brian
Harper missed a tag and the Atlanta
Braves were safe at home. After two
sensational, run-saving plays at the
plate, the Braves got past Harper and
beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 Wednes
day night to even tire World Series at
two games apiece.
Until the bottom of the ninth, the
only way the Braves could reach home
was on home runs by Terry Pendleton
and Lonnie Smith. Then, tied 2-2,
Game 3 hero Mark Lemkc tripled to
the wall in left-center field and, after ah
intentional walk, scored on sacrifice fly
to right by Jerry Wiliiard.
Harper took right-fielder Shane
Mack's throw just up the third-base
line and hit Lemke with his elbow but
just missed him with the glove.
The Braves have led for only six of
the 39 innings in the Series so far, but
evened it on a play the Twins vehe
mently protested.
Television replays, though, seemed
to show Lemke twisting past Harper
just enough to win his second World
Series game in the same day. He sin
gled home the winning run in the 32th
inning at 12:42 a.m. Wednesday.
"1 kind of bumped him on the
Shoulder and went around him," said
Lemke, who singled home the winning
run in the 12th inning of Game 3 at
12:42 a.m. Wednesday. "I was able to
get around him and touch the plate
with my hand."
After Lemke's one-out triple. Marl
Guthrie intentionally walked Jeff
B1 a user, Steve Bedrosian relieved, and
Willard, a 12-year journeyman.,
stepped up and hit a high fly to right
field that pushed the drawn-in Mack
back. The bail seemed to hang and
blow toward the infield, and Mack got
a running start and made a strong
throw a few feet up the line.
Harper, who tagged out two run
ners in the fifth inning, tried to block
Lemke with his left hip while catching
the ball. He caught a piece of the run
ner with his body, but home plate um
pire Terry Tata said he missed with his
mitt as Lemke scrambled safely to the
plate.
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