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Friday - December 1, 1995
Sports
Page 13* The Battalion
UT tries to block out streak
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□ The Longhorns have
lost 10 of the last 11
against Texas A&M.
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas
A&M’s domination over Texas
over the past decade has felt
like forever for the Longhorns.
The No. 16 Aggies (8-2, 5-1
Southwest Conference) have
won four straight and 10 of the
past 11 in one of the country’s
most intense rivalries.
But the ninth-ranked Long
horns (9-1-1, 6-0), who will try
to overcome A&M’s 31-game
home winning streak at College
Station on Saturday, are at
tempting to become firm believ
ers that nothing lasts forever.
“We’ve all been involved in
winning and losing streaks,”
said Texas coach John Mack-
ovic. “Nothing lasts forever.
You can’t take it for granted on
either side.”
Mackovic has tried to keep
his team’s focus off of the Ag
gies’ recent superiority. A&M’s
last four victories against
Texas have been by an average
margin of 18 points, including
last year’s 34-10 triumph in
Austin.
“I am one of those who says
to a player or a team, ‘You are
not accountable for someone
else’s sins. You have to be ac
countable right now,”’ he said.
“There is no burden on this
team. I am not putting any on
them.”
Texas’ fourth-year coach can
talk all he wants, but his play
ers say they are tired of losing
to the Aggies.
“This is the biggest game of
my career,” said senior defen
sive tackle Shane Rink. “We
haven’t beaten them in my four
years here. It’s for the champi-.
onship. It’s for a Tier I bowl
game. It’s for everything.”
Saturday’s game will deter
mine the 81st and final SWC
champion. Texas, which will
join A&M in the Big 12 Confer
ence next year, has clinched at
least a share of the title.
The winner will go to either
the Sugar or Orange bowl with
the loser facing Michigan in the
Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28 in San
Antonio.
Texas linebacker Tyson
King said his hometown of El
Campo, southwest of Houston,
is a hotbed for Aggie support
ers. His grandfather was in
the A&M Corps of Cadets. He
said losing to the Aggies has
made it difficult to go home.
“Beating the Aggies is the
main thing we’ve wanted to do
since I’ve been here,” said
King, a junior. “After losing to
them the past two years, I
kept saying, ‘I have another
year. I have another year.’ But
I’m running out of years.”
Texas A&M head coach R.C.
Slocum, who is 5-1 against
Texas, said consistently beat
ing the Longhorns has helped
develop the Aggies’ program in
recent years.
“It’s helped a bunch,”
Slocum said. “Around the coun
try, every good team has a mea
suring stick. It’s Ohio State-
Michigan. It’s Auburn-Alaba-
ma. You don’t have to win all
those games, but you have to be
competitive.
“I think by beating Texas,
we have gained credibility.”
Varsity’s horns?
Sawed off at Kyle
Sega Shootout
Texas A&M 35
Texas 34
□ The Aggies stopped
UT on a two-point at
tempt to seal the win.
In the end, senior Texas A&M
quarterback Corey Fkdlig simply
dropped to one knee, then left the
ball to roll slowly across the turf of
Kyle Field.
So ended the greatest Aggie-
Longhorn game of all time, and so
ended the Longhorns’ shot at
knocking A&M out of the national
championship picture.
The final score was almost
unimportant, for the game came
down to one play, one classic
play that defined the heart of
the rivalry.
The play was an attempted two-
point conversion by the Longhorns
with 1:51 left in the game. The
Longhorns had scored just seconds
before on a 45-yard strike from
quarterback James Brown to wide
receiver Mike Adams.
Adams dunked the ball over the
south end zone goal post, stunning
the Kyle Field record crowd of
79,652. UT Head Coach did not
hesitate in sending Brown and the
offense back onto the field in an at
tempt to win the game.
But, as it has so many times in
the past, the Aggies’ “Wrecking
Crew” defense took its game up a
notch with the game on the line.
The Longhorns lined up in a
classic option offense, and Brown
pitched the ball to freshman run
ning back sensation Reggie
Williams.
Williams tried to sweep around
the right end, but faced a horde of
A&M defenders led by junior line
backer Larry Walker and senior
safety Dennis Allen.
Williams reversed direction,
hoping to find a seam, but instead
found sophomore defensive line
man Brandon Mitchell. Mitchell
drove Williams backwards and
hauled him to the ground with the
help of junior linebacker Keith
Mitchell.
At that point, Kyle Field errupt-
ed in an explosion of noise that
was rumored to have been heard
as far away as Calvert.
The Longhorns attempted to re
cover and onside kick on the ensu
ing kickoff, but surehanded senior
fullback Detron Smith snared the
ball before any UT player came
close to it.
The usual suspects put the
points on the board for A&M. Pul-
lig completed 14-of-30 passes for
350 yards.
Leeland McElroy, the runaway
Heisman Trophy favorite carried
the ball 14 times for 100 yards,
scored a touchdown and also com
pleted a 22-yard pass to Albert
Connell when Offensive Coordina
tor Steve Ensminger threw a little
razzle-dazzle into the Aggie attack.
Now the Aggies have put them
selves into position for the only
goal they had to begin the season:
a shot at the national champi
onship.
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