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0 pi a Sports Monday, November 22,1993 The Battalion Page 5 Blowouts nice, but fans like some parity F ort worth Their faces were grim. Officers representing the Fort Worth Police and the Tarrant Coun ty Sheriff's de- partments stood their ground at Amon Carter Stadium as they helplessly watched the crowd at the Texas A&M-Texas Christian football game slip out of control. The fans had started to attack each other and A&M players ... with Lemon Chill lids. During the third quarter, while A&M led TCU 45-3, the mostly parti san A&M crowd made a run on the Lemon Chill frozen lemonade stands, returned to the seats and let fly with the lids. One struck a sideline worker in the chest. Another nipped one of A&M defensive back Dennis Allen's cleats. And yet another yellow, makeshift frisbee spun into A&M tight end James McKeehan - right between the numbers, in the back. The officers castigated those whom they found sporting the con traband lids, arresting one man for running away after being asked to produce his I.D. And one boy was threatened that if he threw another lid, the juvenile delinquent would pay the ultimate price: The officer would have to tell the boy's mother. See Harrison/Page 6 WILLIAM HARRISON Sports Editor Aggies put away hapless Horned Frogs, 59-3 By Mark Smith The Battalion FORT WORTH - Texas A&M continued its dominance of the Southwest Conference Saturday by destroying the Texas Christ ian, 59-3, in front of 33,537 peo ple at Amon Carter Stadium. The win improved the eighth- ranked Aggies to 9-1, 6-0 in con ference and ties the longest con ference winning streak at 21 games, set by the University of Texas between 1968 and 1971. TCU fell to 4-7, 2-5 in conference. The loss, the Frog's worst at home since Texas beat them 58-0 in 1970, showed how much more work the Horned Frog football program needs, TCU head coach Pat Sullivan said. "This gives us an indication of how far we still have to go with such things as numbers, size, ex perience, that kind of stuff," Sul livan said. "I've vowed to go to work to make sure that this (59-3) never happens again." A&M controlled the game from the outset, as it scored built a 35-3 halftime lead. Sophomore quarterback Corey Pullig said the offensive line was the difference in A&M's resounding win. "The line did a great job of blocking," Pullig said. "A lot of the times they (TCU) would put eight or nine guys on the line of scrimmage and the line still picked them up. "My job is easy when I get time like that." Pullig finished the day nine of 15 with 202 yards and two touch downs. Junior backup quarter back Tommy Preston came in for Pullig early in the third quarter. The lopsided victory for A&M was due in part to a number of big plays that resulted in touch downs for the Aggies. They in cluded senior wide receiver Tony Harrison taking an inside screen from Pullig 71 yards and junior running back Greg Hill tying the longest run in A&M history by sprinting 94 yards Senior cornerback Aaron Glenn returning a punt 55 yards and a blocked punt by freshman cornerback Donovan Greer, which was recovered by Dennis Allen. On the other side of the ball, A&M's defense held the TCU of fense to only 207 total yards for the game. However, TCU sopho more tailback Andre Davis gained a majority of that yardage alone, racking up 138 yards on 22 carries. "I saw a little bit of a tear in the interior," senior noseguard Lance Teichelman said. "We were pulling apart just a little." Part of that interior penetra tion could be a result of the ejec tion of junior defensive end Sam Adams in the first quarter. Adams said he was not sure why he was thrown out. "(The official) said I was fight ing," Adams said. "I was just trying to protect myself and keep him off of me. I didn't want to fight him and had no intention of fighting him. "Fighting has no place in col lege football. It disrupted the game and I was very upset with myself. Next time I'll know bet ter." TCU's quarterbacks were not as productive as Davis. Sopho mores Max Knake and Scott McLeod completed only six pass es in 28 attempts for 47 yards. Knake had the only interception, which Glenn corralled for his third of the season. The Aggies' win sets up a con ference championship game with the Longhorns on Thanksgiving night. If A&M wins, a third straight trip to the Cotton Bowl would be clinched and A&M would have the longest winning streak in SWC history. "The championship is very important to our team," Pullig said. "We're not going to share it. "We don't want part of a championship, we want the whole thing." Kyle Bumett/THE Battalion A&M defensive back Donovan Greer (30) prepares to block TCU punter Kevin Cordesman (7). Greer's block was recovered in the end zone by A&M safety Dennis Allen for a touchdown. Greer blocks, Glenn shocks as A&M special teams dominate TCU By Michael Plumer The Battalion FORT WORTH - For a football team to reach this stage of the season with a 9- 1 record, a few special things have to happen along the way. Eighth-ranked Texas A&M got contri butions from the young and the old dur ing Saturday's 59-3 pounding of Texas Christian. Senior cornerback Aaron Glenn re turned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown while freshman cornerback Donovan Greer blocked a Horned Frog punt that was recovered for a score. In a game that featured a 94-yard touchdown run, a 71-yard touchdown catch and an ejection, Greer's play might have been the most exciting. Greer lined up on the right side of the offensive formation, blew by the Horned Frogs' upback and stuffed senior Kevin Cordesman's punt. Sophomore safety Dennis Allen recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. "We work on this play every week," Greer said. "I told Coach (Shawn) Slocum that nobody was blocking me, so he called it. I thought I had an opportu nity, and I wanted to make the best of it." But the Alief Elsik product said that he was disappointed with the end result. "I wish I could have finished off the play by recovering it for a touchdown," Greer said with a smile. "It was icing on the cake when we scored, though. "I was happy someone recovered it, especially since it was one of our guys." Greer's block came at the end of the first half with the Aggies already leading 28-3. A&M head coach R.C. Slocum said it was the perfect time to put on the block. "With the situation the way it was, calling the block was the tactical thing to do," Slocum said. 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