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The Battalion
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By DON NORWOOD
Tiger quarterback Phil Johnson is the leading
candidate to start Saturday against Texas A&M.
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
For injury-riddled Texas A&M, Saturday's
matchup with Missouri will be the same song, sec
ond verse.
Much like in their home opener last week against
Tulsa, the Aggies (3-0) bring their list of casualties on
the road to face a fresh, healthy Missouri (0-1) team
Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
The latest of A&M's injury victims is fullback
Doug Carter, whose ankle sprain against Tulsa is es
pecially distressing, considering his high value as a
receiver out of the backfield.
And although he is expected to return in time for
the Southwest Conference opener against Texas
Tech, A&M head coach R.C. Slocum said that
Carter's absence in Missouri's Faurot Field will be an
undesirable interruption.
"I think he was making great progress until he got
hurt," Slocum said. "In the first game, he got sick
out in California. I think that affected his play. He
didn't have as good a game against Stanford that I
normally would have expected.
"He came back against LSU and had a real solid
game, and last week he started off good before his in
jury.
Slocum said the fifth-ranked Aggies could use his
experience Saturday rushing the ball and catching
the ball.
"He's been around a long time and knows what
we're doing," he said. "He's a guy you can count on
in the passing game, not only from the standpoint of
running routes and catching balls but also in picking
up blitzes, and doing things like that are really im
portant."
But that's not all. Backup quarterback Tommy
Preston is suffering from a sciatic nerve problem,
shelving him for the near future and thinning out the
ranks behind Jeff Granger.
"We're trying to get him rested up and well,"
Slocum said. "We'll look at him next week, rest him a
little more and try to get him back to see how he re
sponds to the lack of activity."
On the other hand, there's Missouri, who came
out of their near-upset on the road against Illinois
with little more than scrapes and bruises.
"(Defensive tackle) Rick Lyle wasn't able to play
in the second half after he hurt an ankle," Missouri
head coach Bob Stull said. "We expect him to play
Saturday."
Another aspect of Saturday's game that places the
two teams at opposite ends of the spectrum is their
quarterbacks. Missouri signalcallers Phil Johnson,
Jeff Handy and Brian Sallee all notched playing time
a year ago.
Johnson, who is the leading candidate to start Sat
urday against the Aggies, accounted for 2,187 yards
of total offense last year while connecting on 14
touchdown passes.
No matter which quarterback plays, their targets
are among the best in the nation. Wideouts Victor
Bailey and Byron Chamberlain were rated as the best
receiver tandem in the nation by Lindy's Football
Annual.
Throw in an offensive line led by potential All-
America Mike Bedosky protecting Tiger passers, and
the challenge for the A&M secondary might be more
demanding than some might think.
The picture of the Missouri defense is not so rosy,
however. Graduation and spring practice injuries
took their toll on a squad shifting to a more blitz-ori
ented scheme.
The situation is at its worst among linebackers, a
position that is a perennial weakness in Columbia.
Middle backer Darryl Major, last year's Big Eight co
freshman defensive player of the year, is the only
proven player at either the outside or insjde posi
tions.
Therein lies the rub for the Tigers, who get to look
forward to meeting a renewed Greg Hill. Hill rushed
for 125 yards against Tulsa's underrated 4-3 defense
last week with guard John Ellisor sidelined with a
knee injury,, a statistic that Stull said is a cause for
concern.
The prospects seem pretty bright for the Aggies.
As a matter of fact, they seem as bright as they did a
year ago before A&M hit the road against Tulsa.
Obviously, the similarities are nothing more than
coincidental. And Stull is in no way pretending that
his Tigers can work the same kind of magic Tulsa did
a year ago.
But what if?
"What we're worried about is just playing hard
and minimizing our mistakes," Stull said. " But any
time you win, it builds confidence for the rest of the
season."
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Dueling sports editors sound off to each other on Lassie, Ferret Field and Harry S.
t
fOLUMBIA, Mo. -
Texas A&M is going
-to be 3-1 after this
weekend.
No, I'm not kidding.
Hey, stop laughing.
ESPN just assigned the
Sept. 26 Missouri-Indiana
football game to their early
game that Saturday. Do
you really think that a re
spectable broadcasting
company would assign a
mediocre 0-2 team to be on
television?
Therefore, it only goes to
reason that ESPN is hoping
for a MU victory to enhance
its ratings for the Tigers-
Hoosiers match-up. But it's going to take some in
credible intervention for Mizzou to win. So it
would seem that Saturday's Aggie game would
have to be affected by some heavenly source.
My first guess would have been God, but he's
just too busy making UT look like crap. So the next
logical conclusion would be Harry S. Truman.
You're laughing again. Just hear me out.
By now, Truman is sick and tired of President
Bush comparing himself to Truman. And consider
ing Bush is a "Texan" and is planning on using the
Texas A&M campus for the site of his library, this
will be a perfect time for Harry S. to get back at
JASON
YOUNG
Sports Editor
Univ. of Missouri
Bush.
This would seem very logical if you were a Mis
sourian. Because we all know that there are only
two Trumans, Harry S. and the Tiger - our mascot.
Therefore, it's obvious that Harry S., wanting to
defend his home state and his namesake will help
MU kick A&M's ass.
Finally, the University of Missouri, unlike Texas
A&M, has a real mascot. This may seem trivial
compared to the other logical reasons, but the truth
is, who could ever be scared of a dog named Lassie?
There it is, three extensively researched and
thought out reasons why the Tigers are going to
beat the Aggies.
By now. I'm sure all of Aggieland is shaking in
its collective cowboy boots, and Royal Crown
Slocum and the rest of the boys have turned the
plane around.
Y'all better just start practicing your cheers or
hollers or whatever the hell they're called, because
the Aggies are not going to win. And if you want to
get kissed, you better go home to mamma.
It is going to be an extremely long and painful
day at Faurot Field.
Someone once asked me whether the Missouri
students would tear down the goal post if we beat
the Aggies. Hell, we would tear down the entire
stadium.
No one is kidding themselves here at Mizzou,
Texas A&M is by far the better team. So if Missouri
See Young/ Page 6
C OLLEGE STATION -
Why should we even
bother?
Why should Texas A&M
even bother showing up in
Columbia Saturday to play
your Missouri Tigers?
Seems like it would be a
waste of gas.
The fifth-ranked Aggies
have already taken the field
three times this season and
have come away victorious
each time. They have
proven themselves superior
in battlefields from the "Big
A" in California to "Death
Valley" in Louisiana. They
look down the road at a piti
ful Southwest Conference schedule like a hungry
lion, or tiger, looks at a piece of raw meat.
Meanwhile, Missouri has seen combat only once
this season, and they couldn't even win that. Sure,
sure, you made it close late in the game, but like the
saying goes, "Close only counts in horseshoes and
hand grenades."
So Saturday, there will be a team with talent de
scended from heaven playing a team whose only
accolade is that they came close. What possible
chance does this Missouri team have of beating
A&M?
What chance do they have? Plenty.
CHRIS
WHITLEY
Sports Editor
Texas A&M
The setting is just too perfect. A top five team
full of momentum travels north to play some seem
ingly loser school. The point spread is over two
touchdowns, and the experts have already penciled
one in for the Aggies.
Sounds like a set-up to me.
A&M could be walking right into a trap when
they step onto Ferret Field Saturday. Filled with
overconfidence, the Aggies will expect a cakewalk
while your Tigers play so far over their heads that
they suffer nosebleeds for two weeks and pull off
the upset.
But that's not the worst part.
The tremendous "upset" will cause the Aggies
to plummet in the rankings. The press will wonder
aloud why such a solid group of football geniuses
lost to, of all teams, Missouri. Team morale will be
at an all-time low. Soon, we'll be hard pressed to
win any of our games (except, of course, for Texas).
And all you residents of Columbia will just
laugh your heads off. You'd just love to pull off the
upset of the year, wouldn't you? The campus
would be abuzz. The fans would tear down the
goalposts at Fart Field, or wherever it is that you
play.
Of course, it wouldn't matter much. You still
couldn't beat Nebraska, Oklahoma or even Col
orado (that is, unless you only give them four
downs to score).
But even if the Tigers go 1-10, they can say
See Whitley/ Page 6
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