Monday • October 31, 1994
§ PORTS
The Battalion • Page 7
SMU gives
impressive
performance
STEWART
DOREEN
Sportswriter
I t’s a good thing daylight-saving
time came when it did. All Ag
gie fans now have an extra hour
to sleep off that hangover caused by
the frustration of being a member
of A&M’s 12th Man on Saturday.
The Aggies went into this
weekend’s game against SMU as a
heavy favorite.
SMU, the conferehce doormat
since its return from the “Death
Penalty”, came out to ruin the Ag
gies’ day and perfect season. SMU
wanted a win and according to head
coach Mark Rossley, “The eyes of
the nation can come to SMU”. In
stead, SMU tied the Aggies 21-21
and brought a little respect to the
Mustang football program.
FLANIGAN: A ONE MAN GANG.
SMU quarterback Ramon Flani
gan might have established himself
as the conference’s most dominant
player. In the offense that looked
more like a playground offense
where everybody goes out, spreads
the defense and lets Flanigan
throw or run; Flanigan picked and
chooses his opportunites.
There were the times when
Flanigan lined up over center and
got yard after yard with everyone
in the Alamodome knowing he was
going to get the ball.
“When (Ramon) Flanigan is
healthy, he’s a heck of a player,”
A&M head coach R.C. Slocum. “He
demonstrated that today. He made
some key plays.”
Flanigan left only one question
on Saturday unanswered: What if
Flanigan was 100 percent?
Rossley labeled his signal caller
as being at 80 percent due to a
strained left hamstring. This was
demonstrated by Flanigan’s inabili
ty to change gears when in the
open field. It would’ have been in
teresting to see how good Flanigan
could have been.
OH WELL, BETTER GET
READY FOR TEXAS.
A quality team will learn some
thing from a game like this. For
the Aggies, it is that they know
they are mortal, and they have to
work hard to get a win. the year.
The Texas game might have lost
the luster with the Aggies not on the
tube, the Longhorns not in the top
25 and both teams coming off sus
pect weeks (that’s putting it kindly).
To the players, this won’t matter.
SMU s strong effort takes A&M by surprise
Aggie turnovers, Flanigan's scrambling leads to tie
By Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
Saturday was supposed to be anoth
er day of food, fun and blow out football
in San Antonio’s Alamodome. Howev
er, the incredible happened, and a 21-
21 tie between the Texas A&M and
Southern Methodist University
changed everything.
“I have no idea what happened to
us,” head coach R.C. Slocum said. “It
was the perfect situation. Our fans
turned out and filled the stadium. We
had every reason to play well. At no
time time until the end of the game did
I feel like we wouldn’t win the game.”
The tie brings A&M’s record to 7-0-1,
3-0-1 in the Southwest Conference and
has dropped them to eleven in the As
sociated Press’ latest poll. After the
game, the Aggies expressed their con
cerns about the problems of a tie with
the 1-7-1, 0-4-1 Mustangs.
“What you’d like to do when you lose
a game is go out and say ‘You know we
had great preparation and went out
and played our hearts out and just
weren’t good enough to win’,” Slocum
said. “I can’t say that about this game.”
“You’ve got to come into a game like
this prepared to play,” junior safety
Dennis Allen said. “I don’t think we
were prepared to play. We were 7-0
and not supposed to tie them.”
“I consider a tie a loss,” senior run
ning back Rodney Thomas said. “To
lose against SMU, it hurts, but this
team is going to learn from that.”
Mistakes proved to be a key factor
demonstrated early in the first when se
nior comerback Billy Mitchell fumbled
a punt at the A&M 31-yard line. Fol
lowing an A&M offsides penalty, SMU’s
junior quarterback Ramon Flanigan
beat the A&M blitz and hit senior wide
receiver Mick Rossley over the middle
for the first score of the game.
“Turnovers play a big part in every
game,” Slocum said. “A team that
turns the ball over and gets penalties
has a hard time winning.”
Another A&M mistake translated im
mediately into seven points. Following a
interception by SMU’s junior comerback
Cornell Parker of junior quarterback
Corey Pullig, Flanigan capped a five
play, fifteen yard drive with a three-
yard run around right end. All the plays
is scoring drive were rushing plays by
Flanigan whose influence in the game
was felt despite the limits in his ability
due to a strained left hamstring.
“Ramon made key plays in key dri
ves,” SMU head coach Tom Rossley said.
“Our players believe in him and rally
around him. There was confidence in
our team when he was out there.”
“Ramon is a scrambler,” Dennis
Allen said. “You’ve got to make sure
you contain someone like that.”
The Aggies came out in the second
half down 14-0 to tie the game on Rod
ney Thomas’ 57- yard touchdown run.
Thomas, who rushed for 134 yards and
two touchdowns on 18 carries, scored on
the fourth quarter’s opening play on a
25-yard pass from Fkillig. Junior kicker
Keith Waguespack missed the extra
point to give SMU a one point lead.
A fumble by Pullig on the A&M 29
gave SMU only a short distance to go
for their final touchdown. Two rushes
and a pass interference on A&M
paved the way for Flanigan’s three-
yard touchdown run.
A third Rodney Thomas touchdown
from 35 yards out and following two-point
conversion from Pullig to senior flanker
Brian Mitchell made the score 21-21.
We came out more focused in the sec
ond half,” F*ullig said. I think it was too
late by then. We are not satisfied with a
tie. It’s unacceptable for any game.”
SMU marched down the field but Ben
Crosland missed his third field goal of
the day wide right. A&M had only 29
seconds and could only muster a 67-yard
attempt by Kyle Bryant that fell short.
It’s obvious by our play on the field
that we didn’t play our best,” Allen
said. “We’re not invincible.”
Tie game with SMU ends 26-game SWC winning streak
A&M players treat draw with Mustangs like loss;
Slocum says team must prepare for Texas game
By Drew Diener
The Battalion
The nation’s longest conference win
ning streak came to
a stunning halt Sat
urday in San Anto
nio when Southern
Methodist and
Texas A&M played
to a 21-21 draw,
Going into the
contest as the sev
enth-ranked team in
the nation, the Ag
gies were expected to
easily add to their
recor.d 26-game
Southwest Conference winning streak.
The pregame question was not
whether the Aggies would defeat the 1 -
7 Mustangs but by how wide a margin.
Plagued by turnovers and penalties,
the Aggies had to battle back from a 14-
0 halftime deficit just to tie the game.
“Over the years, you always won
der and figure sooner or later it will
happen (the streak will end),” A&M
head coach R.C. Slocum said. “You
wonder who it will be and under
what circumstance. Obviously, you
just don’t know who it will be.”
Although the outcome will go down
in the record books as -a,tie, Slocum
said the result feels like a loss.
“Things like this happen every week
in college football,” Slocum said. “When
it happens to you, it’s no fun. I’ve said
every week that this is a possibility.
“We’ve gone through three and a
half years, and it hasn’t happened to
us, but every time I’ve gone out there,
I thought that there was a possibility
that it could and it finally did.”
A&M’s record streak began with
their 1991 conference opener, a 37-14
victory over Texas Tech.
Over the next three years, the streak
was threatened quite a few times, but
Slocum
the Aggies always prevailed.
With an 18-9 victory over the Uni
versity of Texas last season, the Aggies
set the SWC record with their 22nd
consecutive conference victory.
This season the Aggies added to
that total with victories over Tech,
Houston, Baylor, and Rice.
Senior outside linebacker Antonio
Armstrong, who was a true freshman
when the streak began, said he feels
like the team let a lot of people down
by tying SMU.
“I feel as though we didn’t carry on
the tradition that was passed down to
us,” Armstrong said. “I wanted to go
out of here (finish my A&M career)
winning every game. A tie is like kiss
ing your sister, it’s no good, and it’s
just not right.”
Junior free safety Dennis Allen, who
contributed six tackles in the game, said
he was stunned by the outcome.
“It feels like a loss,” Allen said.
“We’re 7-0, and we’re not suppose to
tie teams like SMU. You have to give
them credit. They came out, played
well, and executed their game plan.
“We can’t take things for granted
when we come out and play.”
Offensive lineman Tim Vordenbau-
men, a senior from San Antonio Clark,
said his homecoming was spoiled by his
team’s uncharacteristic performance.
Vordenbaumen anticipated the Ag
gies would play well in front of such a
pro-A&M crowd.
“For me it’s disappointing that it
happened here in my hometown,” Vor
denbaumen said. “We didn’t play like
the A&M team I’ve been a part of. We
didn’t want to be the (A&M) team that
broke the streak,.
“The fact is, we didn’t go out there
and play our best, and the team that
had more will and heart tied us today.”
Armstrong pointed to the upcoming
game against Texas as a test of how
his team will respond to the tie.
“It’s kind of hard for me to swallow
right now,” Armstrong said. “A good
football team shows character. When
you win, you’ve got to show charac
ter, when you lose you’ve got to show
character.
“We tied a game so we’ve got to come
back and show character by getting pre
pared to play Texas next week.”
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