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Monday, September 14,1992
The Battalion
Page 5
Tulsa's a new
team when
facing A&M
S omeone
who
watched
Saturday
night's game in
Kyle Field
should write a
note to Texas
A&M athletic
director John
David Crow
and convey to
him the follow
ing message:
KEEP TULSA
OFF OUR
SCHEDULE!!!
What is the deal with these guys?
Normally, a mild-mannered football
team, when the Golden Hurricane
takes on A&M, they play like there's
no tomorrow.
Last year, after the Aggies rolled in
their opening game at home and
steamrolled into Tulsa with momen
tum, the Hurricane shocked the foot
ball world by staging a second-half
comeback and upending A&M, 35-34.
For the men in maroon, it was a
stinging defeat that would become
their only regular season loss. It was a
bitter pill to swallow.
Not this year. Miracles weren't go
ing to happen twice. Not in Kyle
Field.
After suffering the wrath of Stan
ford in Disneyland and Louisiana State
in Death Valley, the then seventh-
ranked Aggies weren't going to let
their nemesis from the north steal their
show again.
The fans knew it. The players knew
it. Even the bookmakers, who favored
the Aggies by more than three touch
downs, knew it.
But the Hurricane didn't know it
Saturday. And ignorance is bliss.
The Aggie offense bumbled in the
first half as they have in the two prior
games. They gave up three turnovers,
racked up less than 100 yards total of
fense and had the ball less than 11
S8S Whitley/Page 6
CHRIS
WHITLEY
Sports Editor
Aggies continue late win tradition
Wear-down tactic
gives A&M 19-9
win over Tulsa
By J. DOUGLAS FOSTER
Sports Editor of THE BATTALION
During Texas A&M's 1991 Southwest
Conference championship football sea
son, the Aggies developed a pattern of
jumping on opponents early and killing
the clock during the second half.
In A&M's 19-9 win over Tulsa Satur
day, the Aggies continued a different pat
tern that has become commonplace dur
ing the '92 campaign.
That tactic: Wear down the opposition
and do all the scoring in the second half.
After accumulating only 95 yards in
the first half, the A&M offense finally
started firing on all cylinders to amass
191 yards in the second half and score the
two touchdowns that would help pull out
the victory.
Defensively, the Aggies never had any
trouble getting started. Tulsa was only
able to gain 136 yards in the first half and
had even less success in the final half,
gaining only 48 yards.
The biggest of the defensive stands for
A&M came at the close of the second
quarter, when two fumbles gave Tulsa
the ball twice deep in Aggie territory.
The first drive started with the Golden
Hurricane owning a first-and-goal from
the A&M 10-yard line. Four plays and a
five-yard penalty later, Tulsa was forced
to kick a 22-yard field goal.
The second fumble produced the same
results as Tulsa started at the A&M 21-
yard line, and had to settle for a 40-yard
field goal.
Tulsa's three scoring drives went for a
combined six yards.
Junior linebacker Jason Atkinson said
those two unsuccessful attempts by the
Hurricane gave the Aggies the momen
tum they needed to take the win in the
second half.
"I thought that was a < major milestone,
holding them out of the end zone," Atkin
son said. "Sometimes bad things like
fumbles are going to happen, and it all
comes down to how you react to the bad
things that happen."
The members of the A&M offense are
KARL A. STOLLEIS/The Battalion
A&M fullback Doug Carter cuts to the outside during the Aggies’ first scoring
drive in A&M’s 19-9 win over Tulsa Saturday. Carter left the game in the second
quarter with a sprained ankle and didn’t return the rest of the game.
quick to point out that during the first
three games of the season, it has been the
famed 'Wrecking Crew' that has given
the Aggies the chance to wear down op
ponents and grab the victory at the end of
the game.
"Texas A&M is always going to have
great defenses," sophomore tailback Greg
Hill said. "It seems like sometimes the of
fense struggles, but the defense never
struggles."
"The defense is the reason we won this
game," sophomore quarterback Jeff
See Aggies/Page 6
Buckley, Frazier
becoming big-
play specialists
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
The big play is the hallmark of an
intimidating, big-time defense.
From Tommy Nobis to Hugh Green
to Steve Emtman, the torch has been
passed over and over again as the
great college defenses have separat
ed themselves from the weak and
forgotten.
For Texas A&M, the last few
years have seen them fulfill the ex
pectations that are inherent in fea
turing a defense called the "Wreck
ing Crew." Every week, there are a
select few that step up and make a
difference, batting down a key pass
or stopping a runner just inches
from a first down.
Saturday against Tulsa, it was
simply Marcus Buckley and Derrick
Frazier's turn.
The important statistic for senior
outside linebacker Buckley, who has
made a habit of taking control of
games, was not his seven tackles,
but the fact that four of them were
for losses totalling 19 yards.
A&M jumps to No. 5—See Page 6
As for comerback and fellow se
nior Frazier, his third interception in
as many games was merely a timely
reward for a game that saw he and
his secondary mates effectively shut
down the Tulsa passing game.
"The big plays are what you ex
pect from your seniors/' A&M head
coach R.C. Slocum said. "They've
been there before and they know
how to handle pressure and make
the big plays.
"That's why coaches put such a
premium on their senior players."
Buckley turned in what became
one of the most important plays of
the game with 8:25 left in the first
See Defense /Page 6
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