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londay • October 2, 1995 Sports Page 9 • The Battalion fags dump Oilers for irst franchise win Jacksonville Jaguars 17 Houston Oilers 16 im A last-second missed ield goal sealed the )ilers' fate. HOUSTON (AP) — After ipending most of the game pay- ng for their own mistakes, the xpansion Jacksonville Jaguars lid two things right and ended ip celebrating their first victory. Desmond Howard caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from lackup Mark Brunell with 1:03 o play and Mike Hollis added he winning extra point for a 17- 16 victory Sunday. Against the team that gave hem their first franchise loss, he Jaguars (1-4) got their big ireak with 2:27 left when safety Darren Carrington recovered a fumble by Houston’s Rodney fhomas at the Oilers 45. Brunell, who entered the game with 12:56 remaining, completed four straight passes, including the winner to Howard, former Heisman Trophy win ner discarded by the Washing ton Redskins. The Oilers, who scored 13 points off Jacksonville miscues, had one more chance, but A1 Del Greco’s 52-yard field goal at tempt was wide left as time ex pired. Houston (2-3) fell behind 10-0 only 8:30 into the game but Del Greco kicked a 29-yard field l. A fumble by James Stewart and recovery by Glen Mont gomery preceded Del Greco’s second field goal, a 53-yarder with 4 seconds remaining in the first half. The Oilers went ahead 13-10 in the third quarter. Houston got the ball at Jacksonville’s 43 af ter linebacker Barron Wortham recovered Steve Beuerlein’s fum ble, and Chris Chandler threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Thomas. The Oilers increased their lead to 16-10 in the fourth quar ter when a 23-yard pass interfer ence call against Jaguars corner- back Vinnie Clark led to Del Greco’s 32-yard field goal. Brunell completed seven of nine passes for 57 yards and Beuerlein, playing for the first time since Sept. 10 because of a knee injury, hit eight of 18 for 117 yards. The Jaguars scored 3:46 into the game on rookie Ryan Christopherson’s 1-yard run, and Hollis added a 22-yard field goal almost five minutes later. Rodney Thomas, making his first pro start at running back for the Oilers, caught a touch down pass and rushed 59 yards. He also had two fumbles, the last setting up Jacksonville’s winning touchdown drive. A1 Del Greco’s 52-yard field goal attempt as time expired was only his second miss in his last 19 attempts. Jacksonville became the third expansion team to get a victory in its first five games Minnesota won its opener in 1961 and the Cincinnati Ben gals won their second and third games in 1968 The Oilers’ home attendance falls behind their 1994 pace with each game. Through three home games this season, the Oilers have drawn 116,545. They had 150,041 fans during that stretch last season. Cowboys’ loss hurts twice as much Washington Redskins 27 Dallas Cowboys 23 □ Troy Aikman will miss at least two weeks with a calf injury. WASHINGTON (AP) — First, Troy Aikman left the game and then the Cowboys fell apart. The Redskins, sensing a vul nerability in their most hated ri val, responded with a perfor mance full of gritty second effort Sunday and held off a late rally for a 27-23 victory over previously unbeaten Dallas. The Cowboys became stun ningly mortal in all phases of the game after Aikman left with a strained calf on the Cowboys’ first possession. The Redskins defense put eight men up front and dared Wade Wilson to pass, and the 36- year-old backup didn’t find his rhythm until it was too late. Emmitt Smith failed to rush for 100 yards for the first time this season, and the Dallas offen sive line allowed two sacks, as many as it had given up previous ly all season. The Cowboys’ defense was pushed aside by a patchwork Redskins offensive line, weakened by injuries to Jim Lachey and Tre Johnson. Terry Allen’s 1-yard run in the third quarter that made it 27-10 was the first rushing touch down against Dallas this season. Many of Allen’s 121 yards — on 30 carries — came on second and third efforts. Suddenly, his moves looked like Smith’s, and quarterback Gus Frerotte’s con nections with receiver Michael Westbrook had the look of Aik- man-to-Michael Irvin as the Red skins picked on comerback Clay ton Holmes. The Cowboys, meanwhile, made the mistakes one would ex pect from the young, rebuilding Redskins: Smith lost a fumble for the second time this season; mo tion penalties at the line of scrim mage slowed down big second- half drives; Kendall Watkins tried to lateral to no one in partic ular while sitting on the grass during a kickoff return; and Bar ry Switzer used up a timeout in third quarter while hesitating whether to kick a field goal or go for a fourth down. The Redskins (2-3) effort was best exemplified by a Allen’s TD reception late in the first half. On first-and-goal from the Dallas 5 with 25 seconds re maining and no timeout, Allen juggled the ball, then bounced out of the arms of linebacker Dixon Edwards before stretch ing the ball over the end zone pylon for the score. Frerotte (13-for-24, 192 yards) had his own rookie mistake, sail ing the ball high while under pressure and into the hands of Cowboys safety Darren Woodson, who returned it 37 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter to put Dallas up 10-3. But Frerotte-to-Marc Logan for 9 nine yards tied it on the Redskins next possession, and Eddie Murray’s 46-yard field goal and Allen’s first TD made it 20-10 at halftime. After a Chris Boniol field goal, Wilson (2l-for-29, 224 yards, one interception) passed 28 yards to Irvin early in the fourth quarter to cap a 96-yard drive that closed the gap to 27-20. Football October 14 vs. SMU 1 p.m. Volleyball October 7 vs. Tech 7 p.m. Soccer October 7 vs. N. Mexico 1 p.m. October 8 vs. Tech 1 p.m. Dillard’s has women’s game coupons! 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