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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. "If we do not block it,
then we do not lose a lot. But, it was
very successful.
"I was very pleased."
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