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K. LEE
DAVIS
Sports Writer
Despite recent
struggles, SMU
has storied past
Y our
Texas
A&M
football team
travels to Dal
las this week
end to play a
contest against
a team that has
no speed, no
running game,
quarterbacking
by committee
and little
chance of stay
ing within a
touchdown of
the Aggies past
the first quarter.
But things were not always so dis
mal for the Southern Methodist Uni
versity Mustangs, who less than a
decade ago walked across the South
west Conference landscape like ma
rauding giants playing games against
so many scattered children.
There were great teams on the Hill
top, and the 1982 squad finished sec
ond in the nation despite the fact that
they didn't lose a game. Unfortunate
ly, SMU didn't play very well while
winning a squeaker at the Cotton
Bowl against the Dan Marino-led Uni
versity of Pittsburgh.
On the same day, Penn State domi
nated Herschel Walker and the Geor
gia Bulldogs at the Sugar Bowl in New
Orleans to leapfrog the Mustangs and
take the fabled national champi
onship.
The '82 Mustangs could probably
give a lot of good advice to this year's
Aggie team on how to keep from be
ing jumped in the polls.
But the Mustangs already had won
a national championship, way back in
1935, four years before A&M was able
to claim the same.
A pretty fair running back by the
See Davis/ Page 6
Lady Aggies get another shot at UT
A&M volleyball
looks for revenge
against archrival
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
If hindsight is 20/20 vision, then Texas
A&M head volleyball coach A1 Givens is
seeing things very clearly today.
The last time Givens and the Lady Ag
gies met up with the University of Texas
back on Oct. 7 in College Station, the
Lady Longhorns rolled over A&M, 15-5,
15-4, 15-4, in a match that was really not
even that close.
Talk about your rude awakenings.
With tonight's rematch against the
Lady Longhorns in Austin, Givens is not
looking through rose-colored glasses at
the Texas powerhouse. Instead, he is ful
ly aware of what Texas is capable of and
what it will take to beat them
"I feel real confident that we will play
better than we did in the first meeting,"
Givens said Tuesday. "They (Texas)
played awfully well the first time, but if
we limit our errors we'll be OK."
"But I don't think you can totally shut
them down."
The last two days of practice have been
pretty much status quo for the Lady Ag
gies as Givens has refrained from shaking
things up specifically for Texas.
"We got some things accomplished
Monday," Givens said. "We got a few
more things accomplished today."
One of the accomplishments Givens
does not have to worry about is his
team's setting. Freshman setter Suzy
Wente put in the best match of her young
college career Saturday in A&M's 15-2, 8-
15, 15-11, 15-2 win over Rice, when she
notched 47 assists, the highest individual
total in that category for the Lady Aggies
this season.
Wente chose to deflect any praise di
rected her way while echoing Givens no-
nonsense approach to the team s prepara
tion for Texas.
"I thought I could have played better
defensively," Wente said. And there s
still things we need to work on. But it
was the kind of match we needed. It e
us know that we can go out and play
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
A&M’s Amy Kisling spikes the ball over to Rice in Saturday's four-game win over
the Lady Owls. Kisling and the rest of the Lady Aggies face Texas tonight.
Tech took five games to defeat the Long
horns in Lubbock. That match marks
only the fourth SWC loss for Texas in the
past 10 years.
As a team, the Lady Longhorns carry a
.263 hitting percentage and an average of
14.9 kills per match into their.contest with
A&M. Middle blocker/hitter Katy
well.
"(In practice,) we're just working on
our shots, and I'm trying to work on my
sets. Just the basics mainly."
As far as the basics for Texas go, the
Lady Longhorns seem to have those
down pat. Texas is ranked 11th in the
country with a 17-3 record overall. The
only conference loss for the team came
Oct. 24 when fellow top 25 member Texas
See Lady Aggies/ Page 6
Granger retains
starting QB job
against SMU
By K. LEE DAVIS
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
Texas A&M head coach R. C.
Slocum announced Tuesday that
sophomore Jeff Granger will continue
to hold the starting quarterback posi
tion on Saturday against Southern
Methodist University.
Granger has finished every game
this season, with the exception of the
Rice contest on Oct. 17, where backup
Corey Pullig entered the game in the
fourth quarter after the game was well
in hand.
Pullig had his problems moving the
Aggie offense in the team's 19-13 win
last week against the Baylor Bears,
posting seven points In nearly an en
tire half of play.
"Jeff will start Saturday, and we
will play Pullig," Slocum said at his
weekly press conference. "What I'm
looking for is consistency out of Jeff,
and out of Corey."
Slocum also said that Granger's
starting status was not permanent and
that if either quarterback starts to ex
cel over the other, he will start and
play more.
"If Jeff doesn't get more consistent,
then I think we will see more of
Corey," he said.
Pullig said that he is getting more
comfortable with the A&M offensive
system even though he has only been
exposed to it for a little over three
months.
"I think it has gotten a lot easier
each time I play," Pullig said. "I was
very comfortable in the last game." •
Pullig further stated that he was
content with Slocum's decision.
"Whatever coach says - 'needs to
happen, that is what needs to hap
pen, Pullig said.
Granger said that he realizes he
must be more consistent to keep his
starting job and that improvement
starts in practice.
See Granger/ Page 6
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