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
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