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Page 2B Bryan College Station Eagle Tuesday November 26 1985 Colts hand Curtis Dickey walking papers INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Run ning back Curtis Dickey hobbled by injuries much of the past two seasons was cut Monday by the Indianapolis Colts and Coach Rod Dowhower cited Dickey's attitude as the prime reason for the move Dickey a six year veteran in the National ootball League and the fifth leading rusher in history with 3490 yards was on injured re serye the first month of the season with a knee injury and had been used sparingly since his return in October have givers or takers and winners or losers We want to keep the people that do the Do whower said "He had the opportun ity With his attitude to practice he give what he had to for this football team bottom line was I got tired of said Dowhower the first year coach adds up over a period of time not a Dickey a first round draft pick out of Texas in 1980 carried the ball only nine times for 34 yards in brief appearances since his return He played in 10 games last year but mis sed six games with a knee injury He reinjured his knee during an exhibition game last summer and underwent arthroscopic surgery His starting position went to second year running back George Wonsley have four games to go and we want to end on a positive said Dowhower whose struggling Colts stand 3 9 after 20 7 loss to Kansas City it means wins or losses I want to play better got problems to solve and I want distractions not going to put up with he said of Dickey Dickey who will be 29 on Wednesday was not immediately available for comment Dowhower said the waiver of Dickey who reportedly has a $350000 contract this season does not signal a trend for a team desperate to find a winning formula was a move out of a need I getting what 1 Do whower said bottom line is they have to produce not doing this as a shock treatment no amateur psychologist got off to a good start in training camp but when the veterans came in he slacked off I had a talk with him and told him he could make it (the season) what he wanted out of it Then he got injured going to make him play got to want to do it I'm not one who goes on reputations (of past per he said best season was in 1983 when he rushed for 1122 yards tell him (about being Dowhower said Pow ers (the pro personnel director) told him 1 have much to tell him I told Clyde to tell him if he wanted to talk to me I would talk to him have a lot of players with bright careers These guys have to buckle down Most of the players have a good he said Dickey a native of Bryan holds several Texas career rushing records He played for the Aggies from 1976 through 1979 Dickey holds the career record for rushing yardage with 3703 yards and rushing attempts with 697 1 ormer Colt Curtis Dickey ootball dropped by UT Arlington By DENNE REEMAN AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON The University of Texas at Arlington has dropped its intercollegiate football program to shore up the deficit riddled athletic budget the presi dent said Monday level of deficit financing has been reached which cannot be con tinued President WH Nedderman said we have no choice but to immediately discontinue our most costly sport football and thus reduce our athletic budget by over 1 million a year" Nedderman said UTA would con tinue to have a basketball program and that head football Coach Chuck contract which runs through December 1986 would be honored UTA joined the Southland Confer ence in 1964 and was 4 6 1 this season The Mavericks started playing junior college football in 1919 and became a senior college in 1959 Three years ago UTA dropped from NCAA Division LA to I AA During the 1985 season UTA averaged less than 5600 spectators per game with the biggest crowd 7205 fans recorded on opening night the past 10 to 15 years our financial condition in athletics has gradually said Nedder man our best efforts costs have continued to escalate faster than The school faced a large deficit despite several sources of income Nedderman said year with funding of over $800000 from student service fees in addition to income from ticket sales guarantees and the Maverick club we face a deficit of approx imately he said Curtis said he sure what he was going to do but added shocked all in a state of shock around here "I had no hint anything was com Curtis said Director Bill Reeves told me he wanted me to go to lunch with him and I thought the way he looked there might have been a death in the family It turned out to be the death of our football Curtis said the players could trans fer to any other NCAA school with out penalty or their scholarships would be honored at UTA for myself land some where else a coach and the good Lord designated my talent in that Curtis said Curtis said that UTA was just a year or two away from having tremendous A pholo Saints Coach Bum Phillips resigned Monday Bum resigns spot as coach By AUSTIN WILSON Associated Press Writer NEW ORELANS Bum Phillips abuptly resigned as head coach of the New Orleans Saints on Monday foregoing the final $13 million of his contract Also resigning were team Presi dent Eddie Jones Director of oot ball Operations Pat Peppier and Pub lic Relations Director Greg Suit Jones Peppier and Suit were asked to resign by new ownerTom Benson Wade Phillips son of the head coach and defensive coordinator was named interim head coach Benson said he will work as president and general manager job was to win football games My job here was to provide a winning season and I do Phillips said is the American way and glad it is It was winning that enabled me to go from Class AA high school in Texas to two head coach and general manager jobs in the National ootball The Saints after winning Sunday at Minnesota are 4 8 this year Phil lips was 27 42 in four plus seasons at New Orleans and 86 80 for his career in the NL Benson said it was deci sion to resign want you to know I ask for he said at a hastily called news conference told me he was doing it for the good of the club the good of the city and for Benson bought the club from John Mecom Jr for almost $70 million prior to this season He said it was always idea to forego the final three years of his contract could have put his feet up on the desk the next three years and sat Benson said Peppier handled player acquisi tions and contracts for the Saints Jones and Suit handled the business and public relations end Benson said he asked for resignation because he want anyone around from the 18 years of losing since the team was formed in 1967 The Saints have never had a winning season They were 8 8 under both Dick Nolan and Bum Phillips Wade Phillips said he accepted the resignation of King Hill as offensive coordinator but would not say whether he asked Hill to quit thought it would be the happiest day of my life when I got to be the head coach in the the younger Phillips said an emotional time He said I coach four games or 40 games or 400 games here going to give it my He said his first test would be to get the football team over the shock of his resignation Akers: Game against Aggies his biggest ever Texas Coach red Akers Longhorn coach lauds defense quarterback Murray By JACK KEEVER Associated Press Writer AUSTIN Texas Coach red Akers said Monday the victory over Baylor was his biggest ever but the game on Thanksgiv ing against Texas is even bigger Texas defeated Baylor 17 10 Saturday setting up a Southwest Conference championship game with at College Station It is the first time since 1943 that the Longhorns and Aggies have met head on for the conference title and Cotton Bowl bid A crowd of 76000 nearly 4000 over capacity is expected for the 7:18 pm CST kickoff The game will be televised nationally by ESPN Both teams are 8 2 and have won four in a row Asked at his weekly news confer ence if the upset victory over Baylor was as big as any Akers replied think I can think of a bigger Texas had such an all out team effort against Baylor Akers said that eight Longhorn players tied for most valuable player on defense and six on offense Asked if the game was big ger Akers replied sure They get Akers was asked if it might com pare with the be tween Arkansas and Texas for the national football championship in 1969 and he said know It could a lot riding on it It is the first time in most mem ory that both teams have a chance to get in the Cotton Bowl with a win about as big as you can get Akers said the defense is as good as any since he became Texas coach in 1977 and added that the difference in this more suc cessful Aggie team and last year is the consistency had in playing defense really been strong And (quarterback Kevin) Murray has been even with Murray out wal loped Texas 37 12 here last year and Akers was asked what he had to be encouraged about this year is a better football team this year than they were last year and so are he said The Longhorns got a strong defen sive effort highlighted by a fourth quarter goal line stand to defeat Baylor Saturday Leading 17 10 Texas held the Bears out of the end zone after Baylor took over at the 10 following an interception Rocky Reid and James McKinney sacked quarterback Tom Muecke on a crucial fourth and 5 play that eli minated Baylor from the Cotton Bowl picture The Texas offense was sparked by the best performance of the year from tailback Edwin Simmons The junior from Hawkins who has been bothered by knee injuries ran for 90 yards on 22 carries UT tailback Edwin Simmons Cl Ht sr 6 9 jr 6 9 jr 6 6 sr 6 0 st 6 3 ALCORN Nam (no) David Palmer (44) Bonner Upshaw (24) Reginald Porter (14) Tommy James (31) Davey Whitney (20) TEXAS ASM Name (noj Jimmie Gilbert (30) Winston Crlte (21 David Thompson (34) Don Marbury (3) Mike Ctifford (25) Aggie Basketball Texas vs Alcorn State The Matchup: Texas Aggies (0 1) vs Alcorn Braves (0 0) Time: 7:30 tonight Site: Rollie White Coliseum Radio: 7:20 pm KTAM (1240) The Coaches: Shelby Metcalf East Texas State 1955 (360 242 all at Alcorn Davey Whitney Sr (360 119) All Time Series Record: irst meeting Last Game: dropped a 7 1 68 decision to 16th ranked Alabama Birmingham in the opening round of the NIT Big Apple despite a strong comeback Alcorn playing its season opener tonight Injuries: orward Winston Crite (6 7) still not at 100 percent after ankle injury sustained Nov 11 junior point guard Todd Holloway missed one day of practice after turning his ankle in UAB game The Game: The Aggies open a three game homestand tonight against a rebuilding Alcorn team All five starters from last 23 7 team have graduated The Braves won the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship last season with a 13 1 record and earned a berth in the NIT losing by two points to Louisville in the opening round playing its 23rd year under Metcalf is picked to challenge for the Southwest Conference crown Alcorn the SWAC titlisi each of the last two seasons is picked for a middle of the road finish because of its graduation losses Crite and senior guard Don Marbury who scored 22 points in 18 minutes against UAB give two of the more exciting indi viduals 6 9 senior David Palmer (96 points a game last year) and 6 3 senior Davey Wee" Whitney Jr are the top returnees for Alcorn The Coaches Say: assistant John Thornton time to go to work got to learn from the good and the bad we did against UAB got these three games at home and hope to build some momentum the schedule will get progressivley tougher and what all about getting ready for Southwest Conference Preliminary Game: None Next Game: Stephen Austin 1 pm Thursday Alcorn Wilev in Lorman Miss Saturday THE LINEUPS Cl Ht sr 6 9 jr 6 7 sr 6 10 sr 6 3 jr 6 6 Winning football a way of life at Cameron 5 i Wk JERRY WAGGONER SportsWriter When football aficionados pay homage to the football meccas of Texas Brownwood Breckenridge Odessa Abilene and Temple are usually mentioned Another town that could join this elite group if success continues as consistently as it has during the Toby York era is Cameron Cameron is a community more or less untouched by the modem times a throwback to the 40s and 50s It is a farming community which evolves around its children and their school activities Cameron always has been a consis tent winner just that since York took over in 1 981 the Yoemen are even more consistent winners The Yoemen will try to extend winning ways Saturday in Moorhead Stadium at 7:30 in the regional Class 3A playoffs against Kirbyville Iri five seasons he already has produced 52 victories and one state championship He is consi dered by his pieers one of the bright est young coaches in the state But his coaching abilities alone did not lift Cameron to its present status What then are the reasons for the success? It all begins at ground level with a community that loves the game wants to see its team and children successful and backs the program to the hilt community pride In the summer we talk about foot ball and mark our calendars for the first day of two a day fall practices said Maxie Shuemate a Cameron In dependent School District employee The people of Cameron put their energies into supporting the Yoemen George Hollas an insurance man who played back in 1945 47 cited a story from one of the assistants which points out the importance of football and winning in Cameron Dunn is defensive Hollas said said when he was being hired by York he was told if they win be run off Dunn said those were his kind of Dunn got the job and York got a good defensive coordinator always has been a good football Hollas said won a district title since 1936 when I was playing and we won in 1946 We had tremendous support then I think maybe it started after World War II In the last 40 years maybe had two losing seasons just had a good It is a program which has been gently handed from one generation to another to nurture with care Several fans credited their success to having good coaches who showed interest in their children Coaches mentioned were Paul Smith Ed Cauley George Kirk Leo Jackson and now York Smith may have been the Shuemate said had something to do with the program as did Cauley who came in gung ho in 1971 and Kirk All three were from good programs in Killeen and Tem ple and they brought it with them was the way they treated the boys and the community just fol lowed through They were special people do look forward to football season because there is little else to do" insurance man orrest Sapp said there is good coop eration between the administration band football team and the town I think a lot of it has to do with winning Sapp came to Cameron in 1 954 as a junior high coach under Jackson and stayed had three sons Randy Ricky and Alan play ball and gradu ate from Cameron Randy is an assis tant coach at Cameron and Alan an assistant at Glen Rose All agree that there might be some thing a little extra special about York is a little different chemis try between York and the Sapp said seems to be able to get the most out of them The boys pay the price but so do the coaches Those guys stay up at that field house and work all Shuemate and brother Bertie agreed with that statement first summer York came never seen a coach work so hard in my Maxie said put things in order first Organization was the key Bertie said leaves nothing to chance His teams are prepared for every Hollas said pride sacrifice and attitude are the keys which help York unlock the door to success knows what Hollassaid a hard worker but he surrounds himself with good people never really has had the great athletes Maybe why they get along together so well In 1981 when we won state we had a great kid named reddy Capers An all stater named Oscar Riggins moved in and maybe had more ability I think Capers did more for the team that year by doing what he could to help Cameron win that kind of attitude which has helped Cameron.