European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Pago 21 sports aggie Stampede horns 42-10 College station. Texas a _ Texas am quarterback Kevin Murray threw three touchdown passes and freshman Rod Harris caught two of them As the a gics swamped the Texas longhorns 42-10 thursday Nieh tand nailed Down a trip to the Cotton bowl 1968 " " the the r "1 c�ll0n Bwl Sci for am acc the aggie 9-2, will meet Auburn 8-2, in the new years Day classic. Am was ranked 15th and Auburn was no. 7. The 8-3 longhorns. Ranked 18th, Are headed for the Blue Bonnil bowl to face no. 11 air Force i la am took a 28-0 Lead through three quarters. The horns averted a shutout with a career Best 57-Yard Field goal by Jeff Ward and a 10-Yard touchdown pass from Todd Dodge to flanker Russell Hays with 13 34 left in the game. The aggie scored 21 Points Over a 3 36 Span of the third Quarter after missing several first half opportunities. They led 7-0 at intermission on Murray s 10-Yard touch Down pass to flanker Jeff Nelson. After the half the aggie quickly broke the game open. They took the second half Kickoff 78 Yards in 12 plays ending with a 9-Yard touchdown pass to Harris. Only 36 seconds later the aggie were in the end zone again after cornerback James Flowers intercepted Texas quarterback Bret Stafford s pass and returned it 8 Yards tothe aggie 27. Roger Vick ran 16 Yards to the ii on the next play. Then he headed the aggie toward the Cotton bowl with an 11-Yard touchdown run for a 21-0 bulge. Vick added another 11-Yard touchdown run with 5 59 to play. Harris a freshman ran under Murray s 32-Yard touch Down toss with 5 52 left in the game. Ira Valentine added a 3-Yard to with 4 10 to go. The aggie missed two other first half scoring chances on an interception by Johnny Holland and Fumble recovery by Kip Corrington. Texas is 6-1 in Sec games. The aggie Are 7-1 i league play. Dodge replaced Stafford following Mike january s re covery of an onside kick in the fourth Quarter and directed the longhorns to their Only touchdown. Holland tipped Stafford s pass before Flowers intercepted it to set up Vick s first 1 i Yard touchdown run. Nelson caught the key pass in am s first scoring drive of the third Quarter hauling in a 30-Yard gainer to the Horn 21. Nelson finished the game with seven receptions for 107 Yards. He is the All time leading aggie receiver with 92 catches. Murray finished with 10 completions on 17 attempts for146 Yards. Texas Best scoring Opportunity of the first half came after to Allert s Fumble recovery at the Horn 32. Darron Norris broke 27 Yards to the am 40. Three plays later Stafford hit Charles Hunter for 29 Yards to the aggie 4. The aggie would t give. The am defense ranked first in the Sec allowed the horns to the 6-Inch line on fourth Down and cornerback James Flowers and end Rod Saddler threw Edwin Simmons for a 1-Yard loss. The longhorns reached am s 20 late in the third Quarter but Stafford was sacked for a 14-Yard loss by Domingo Bryant and 6 Yards by Jay Muller on successive plays to kill the drive. It will be am s first trip to the Dallas classic since former aggie coach Gene stalling led the aggie to Victory Over his former coach Bear Bryant and the Ala Bama Crimson tide. Pass Happy Dallas offence guns Down cards 35-17 cowboy1 Tony hid. 2 to receptions by Denne h. Freeman Irving Texas a Danny White s four touchdown passes including two to wide receiver Tony Hill carved up the Dallas cowboys favorite thanksgiving Day turkeys the St. Louis cardinals. Thursday s 35-17 Victory put Dallas one half game ahead of the new York giants in the National conference East. Dallas coach Tom Landry said it was one of the cowboys better offensive performances. We had a Good game he said. The cardinals Are always Tough for us. They played us a Tough first half we got better As the game went on said Landry. Danny looked great particularly in the second half. Danny s last two games have been Landry said he pulled some trick plays out of his playback for the cardinals. We were scrambling up to the last minute trying to get some plays into the game the cardinals had t seen before Landry said. I feel Good because we arc in position to win the pfc East now if we play Good the rest of the the giants travel to Texas stadium for a showdown dec. 10. I was really worried at first Landry said. The cardinals looked really Good. Then they kind of sagged in the second half. That Hap pens to a team that s not in the Cardinal coach Jim Hanifan said we gave it a Good shot. I thought the Way we played the first half we were he credited White with a Sharp performance. White was the difference Hanifan said. He found the open receiver almost every White has seven touchdown passes in the last two games. I be got a lot of Confidence going now he said. I think our offence is finally com ing Dallas is 9-4 after the thanksgiving Day Triumph while the cardinals fell to 4 9. The new York giants 8-4, can regain a share of the pfc East Lead by defeating Cleveland on sunday. The cowboys who lost to the cardinals 21-10 on nov. 4. Used while s unerring marksmanship and a Hill pass on a tricks a to subdue the cardinals and Clinch a Lional football league record 20th consecutive winning season. White s fourth scaring pass was a 53 yarder to Hill in the third period. On dal Las next Possession. Hill threw a pass for Only the second time in his career. On a reverse. Hill hit tight end Doug Cosbie with a 42-Yard shot to set up Tony Dor set s 3-Yard scoring run. While s three touchdown passes in the first half went 18 Yards to Mike Renfro 19 Yards to Cosbie and 16 Yards to Hill. Hill s catch with 1 08 to play gave dal Las a 21-17 halftime Lead in a pass Happy offensive show. 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