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H e ran wild and slipped
through tackles. He
scrambled and threw
strikes. He took over and
valiantly led his team. He did
everything in his power to pro
duce a Houston Oiler upset.
But the feisty Bucky Richard
son couldn’t do it all alone as his
team fell to the heavily-favored
Dallas Cowboys, 20-17.
It might have been a more suc
cessful debut had his teammates
not experienced several of their
characteristic mental letdowns.
But the Oilers are notorious for
their bone-headed blunders, so
that’s beside the point. Let’s talk
about Bucky.
It wasn’t until two hours before
kickoff that Richardson was
named the starting quarterback
in place of the injured Cody Carl
son. Once the former Texas Aggie
trotted onto the field, he didn’t
disappoint his die-hard throng of
fans.
With the exception of an ill-ad
vised interception, Bucky played
a pretty solid game. He kept the
two-time defending world champi
ons on their toes the entire after
noon, eluding a fierce pass rush
by scrambling and unloading
passes on the run.
The third year quarterback
was cool and confident in the hud
dle, and effectively moved the
football. When all was said and
done, Bucky had 242 yards pass
ing and he ran for 37 more.
Although the Cowboys were the
better team on this day, Richard
son showed he has great potential
as a starting quarterback in the
NFL. At this stage, he lacks the
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The Battalion • Page 5
Lady Aggie soccer impresses TarHeels
Young team meets top-
ranked schools in tourney
By Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
After a hard fought weekend against the nation’s best,
The Texas A&M women’s soccer team comes home for the
season’s home opener today against Mercer University at 5
p.m. at the Aggie Soccer
Complex.
The Aggies return from
Dallas where they partici
pated in the Southern
Methodist University
Classic with three teams
ranked in soccer’s top 20.
A&M, 2-1-1, tied the
17th-ranked Maryland
Terrapins 1-1 in a hard-
fought match. The Aggies
used a tough defense that
shut down the high-scor
ing attack of the Terrapins that had scored 5 goals in their
Friday win against 11th ranked SMU. In the end, missed
opportunities and suspect officiating took a victory from the
young Aggies.
“We left the game with a little bit of a bitter taste,” A&M
head coach G. Guerrieri said. “We thought we created
many more good chances than they did.”
The tie came two days after the Aggies were baptized
into the religion of big-time collegiate soccer in Friday’s
match against the legendary North Carolina Tar Heels, a
team that marched into Dallas on a 83-game winning
streak. The 4-0 win by the No. 1-ranked Tar Heels did
leave the Aggies with many positives on Friday. Tar Heel
head coach Anson Dorrance, whose team has won eight
straight national titles, threw some praise towards A&M’s
second-year ball club.
“His (Guerrieri’s) players played hard and didn’t roll over
against us,” Dorrance said. “I
respect a young program that
plays hard against a veteran
program like ours and has
stretches of domination like
they did.”
Despite the Aggies’ 0-1-1
record, their performances
against top competition war
ranted praise from their head
coach.
“My kids impressed me,”
Guerrieri said. “They
showed the ability to step up
and play with the best teams in the country. We’re much
farther along than where I thought we’d be at this point in
the development of the program.”
Please see Soccer, Page 7
"We left the [Maryland] game with
a little bit of a bitter taste. We
thought we created many more
good chances than they did."
— G. Guerrieri, A&M head
soccer coach
U.S. Open win boosts Agassi to No. 9
NEW YORK (AP) — He was on his
knees, his eyes aglow, mumbling a word
or two to himself on the stadium court.
“I can’t believe it,” Andre Agassi
said. ‘The whole thing.”
Maybe this was the real Agassi on
Sunday, a champion at the U.S. Open,
producing a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 victory
over Michael Stich that had every
thing to do with substance and pre
cious little with marketing campaigns.
Agassi went into this tournament
unseeded and beat five seeded players
on his way to the title. Work like that
is not done with smoke and mirrors.
Stich does not know Agassi well,
but he has seen the glitz and the
neon that accompany him wherever
he goes. He has seen Barbra
Streisand on his arm at one Open,
Brooke Shields at another.
He has heard the screeches for
Agassi at the National Tennis Center
and he has heard the courtside
proclamation by U.S. Tennis Associa
tion president “Bumpy” Frazer hail
ing Agassi as the most famous tennis
player in the world.
Stich does not take kindly to fool
ishness. And this was not a good af
ternoon for him, his groundstrokes
caught in the wind, his skills dimin
ished by Agassi, his patience tested
by the umpire.
But even Stich was struck by the
poignance of Agassi alone on the
stadium court while the cheers washed
over him like the surf.
“If you were standing out there next
to him, he was just like a little kid,”
Stich said. “He didn’t know what to
say. He was just so happy and I think
he is a nice guy.
“He wasn’t able to cope with all the
things people brought up to him. And
everybody was just trying to make his
image — companies, television people,
ATP, players. And I think the image
he has is not the person he is. To get
rid of that is very difficult for a young
man, and he seems able to do that now
a little better.”
Some players simply have to deliver
the right shots to win a tournament.
For Agassi it is never that simple. This
Open became a kind of psychodrama
for him, an examination of his
strength and will and maturity.
“I think more than anything this is
a reflection of my commitment,” he
said. “If I had gone down to one of
these other guys during the week, I
would still have been sitting here say
ing the same thing. I’ve got to keep on
my dreams, and my dreams are to win
a tournament like this. That is where
it is at — winning the Grand Slams.”
His ATP ranking Monday moved
from No. 20 to No. 9. He said it was
not unreasonable to think he could be
come No. 1. If he did it for two weeks,
why not longer?
More immediately, he leaves the
Open and begins an exhibition tour,
starting Tuesday night at Albany, N.Y.,
against John McEnroe. Agassi said
American tennis needs a lift and the
tour is important.
WTAW radio
adds sports
show to line-up
By David Winder
The Battalion
Feel like Leeland McElroy is not get
ting the ball enough? Think the baseball
strike will never end? Having trouble
finding people you can express your true
sports feelings to?
If so, then Chip Howard’s new Sports
Talk from 5 - 7 p.m. on WTAW radio has
you in mind.
“People have al
ways said to me for
years ‘Why doesn’t
Bryan-College Station
have a sports talk
show?”’ Howard said.
“I’ve always wanted to
do one, but I couldn’t
because of the early
hours I was working at
KORA.”
Since the show start- Howard
ed last week, Bucky
Richardson, Dallas Morning News writer
Randy Galloway, Dallas radio broadcast
er Brad Sham and Oklahoma Sooner
head coach Gary Gibbs have all ap
peared as guests.
A&M volleyball head coach Laurie
Corbelli, soccer head coach G. Guerrieri
and football head coach R.C. Slocum have
also made appearances on the show.
“I hope what I am doing is giving a fo
rum to some of the lesser sports that
haven’t had that forum before,” Howard
said. “I never had the soccer coach on
when I had three minutes for the sports-
cast on KORA.”
Howard hopes to get more people lis
tening to the show by including seg
ments on golf and hunting every week.
Aggie Fact
September 13,1980: A
freshman running back named
Herschel Walker runs 80 yards
for a touchdown and leads
eventual national champion
Georgia to a 42-0 throttling of
the Aggies at Sanford Stadium
in Athens.
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