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iday, September 6,1993 WILLIAM HARRISON Sports Editor Iggies score fie points and lake it count r h e good news Ike Aggies n't the Oil- -but then iin, what id of good is is that? stry again: looking to scoreboard kalftime of Texas & M - uis i a n a legame, it ai't too sur- to see Mtied 0-0. tad it was not the least bit shock- to witness A&M's 24-point erup- linthe final two quarters. This is way A&M wins football games the way they compiled a perfect drecord last season. idcM is a second half team - much iethe Houston Oilers, whom it's ■er surprising to see up by any !gin,oniy to lose later, iaexplanation for A&M could be general wealth of player depth tcan wear down opponents in a of attrition, with a pound-it-out id attack and a criminal amount harterback abuse over the course igame. hit the statistics may support a iefor A&M's halftime adjustments, last season, A&M's defense al- ian average of 8.75 points in the half, compared to the A&M of- se's 10-point average. Yet, in the bd half A&M's offense averaged ipoints to the opponents' 5.4. looking through last season's e by quarters, if the games were ... See Harrsion/Page 8 Sports The Battalion Page 7 season opener A&M runs by Tigers 24-0 in K yle Burnett/The Battalion A&M junior running back Rodney Thomas is on his way to an 80 yard touchdown against LSU. With his 201 yards rushing, Thomas is the nation's leading rusher. Texas A&M's offense saved its best for the second half in Saturday's 24-0 victory over Louisiana State while the defense posted its first shutout since 1988. A&M coach R.C. Slocum said he was pleased with the play of his team in the season opener, although the Aggies start ed slow. "There is no prescription on how to win," Slocum said. "It's easy to win when you are always ahead, but the mark of a championship team is one that hangs in there through adversity and finds a way to win." The Aggies struggled offensively through the first half before 61,307 at Kyle Field but scored three touchdowns in a ten-minute span behind three big plays from two running backs. Redshirt freshman Leeland McElroy had two receiving touchdowns while ju nior Rodney Thomas had one rushing touchdown during the scoring splurge. Thomas, who was starting in the place of the suspended Greg Hill, had a career day with 201 yards rushing on 25 carries. He echoed the sentiments of his coach. "The first half was a little slow because things didn't seem to work out for us," Thomas said. "You can be concerned but we kept pushing and playing hard. "We were patient, and things started working out." Thomas said A&M came out of the locker room with a new-found confidence after a halftime pep talk from A&M coach R.C. Slocum, which showed on the Ag gies' first post-intermission possession. The Aggies capped an 11-play, 81-yard drive when sophomore quarterback Corey Pullig connected with McElroy on a screen pass. The Beaumont Central product cut behind offensive guard Tyler Harrison's block and took the ball the re maining 26 yards for A&M's first score of the 1993 season. "Leeland is one of the best guys we have had in a long time as far as taking a little play and making it into something special," Slocum said. "We ran that play a lot in practice, because if I am going to throw the ball to a back, I want it to be Leeland." On A&M's next possession, Thomas led the Aggies on a one-play drive. Bar reling through a hole on the left side, Thomas rambled for 80 yards which gave A&M a 14-0 lead and control of the game. "Everything happened just right on that play," Thomas said. "The credit should go to my offensive line because they got off the ball and had some great blocks. "I would give the offensive line a ten on a scale of ten because they allowed me to get off to the races." McElroy hauled in his second touch down of the game on a play that Notre Dame used to burn A&M in the Cotton Bowl last season. McElroy went over the middle for a screen pass and burst through a seam created by center Chris Dausin for a 58-yard touchdown. "All he had to do was run right behind me," Dausin said. "That play was easy for me because all I did was screen the linebacker and it was off to the races for Leeland. "It showed who's a man and who's a boy." A&M's defense played like men in shutting out LSU. TCU was A&M's last opponent to be blanked by a score of 18-0. The Aggies held LSU to 67 yards total of fense in the second half. See LSU/Page 8 McElroy and Thomas tandem fires up the Heisman hype, burns LSU By David Winder The Battalion In 1991 A&M running back Greg Hill ran for an NCAA-record 212 yards in his first collegiate game against Louisiana State stirring hopes for another Heisman halfback at Texas A&M. Two years later, two more backs have stepped into the spotlight, premiering in Hill's absence and fostering the same Heisman hype at A&M. In A&M's 24-0 victory over the Tigers Saturday, junior Rodney Thomas de buted as one of the front runners for the Heisman Trophy with a career-high 201 yards rushing, and freshman redshirt Leeland McElroy began his Aggie career much like Hill did, accounting for 121 to tal yards and two touchdowns. Thomas said he did not feel the pres sure playing without incoming starter Hill, who was suspended for the game. "Pressure is just like anything else," Thomas said. " You can use it as a stum bling block or a foot stool. But things work out because when you have cham pions around you, it rubs off. "I think it rubbed off on me and on Leeland and I think that's one of the things that our team has is a lot of win ners. It's just a lot of people here who don't mind giving one hundred and ten percent." On his first carry, McElroy showed why he had been the talk of the offense during the summer workouts with a 12- yard run. He was still a little nervous though. "Before the game I did have butter flies," McElroy said. "But after my first play it was all over. "1 didn't have any set goals or any thing; I just wanted to get in there and play with heart and do what I could do." What McElroy did was rush for 30 yards on five carries and have four re- See McEIroy/Page 8 University PLUS Fall Classes ^ ARTS CRAFTS HELP LANGUAGE Painting I Registration Begins Sept 6th 845-1631 J Thurs. 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