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225-3472 225-1927 Texas title up for grabs ROGER STAUBACH at the helm DALLAS (AP) The Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers tangle for the Professional Football Saturday night with the Oilers getting their final chance for a preseason victory. The punchless Oilers, who have been beset by injuries, are 0-5 while the Cowboys, 2-3, will Be riding the momentum of a solid 20-10 victory over Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh. Coach Bum Phillips of the Oilers panicking but would like to see his team produce a total performance before the regular season opener against Tampa Bay. Roger Staubach will be at the helm for the Cowboys. His performance will go a long way in the determining the outcome.

The Oilers are always up for Staubach and they as bad a team as thier record indicates. Dallas leads this National Football League preseason series 7-2 and some 55,000 fans were expected in Texas Stadium for the nationally televised (ABC) 8 p.m. CDT kickoff THE SATURDAY EXPRESS-NEWS SPORTS Dan Cook Page 3C Dan Klepper Page 4C Baseball Page 4C Scoreboard Page 5C Paqe 1 -C Sept. 4 1976 Highlands slips past McCollum Aggie paws sharp ready SWCTOUR year the offense will be says Bellard. am very pleased with the progress of the offense.

Our replacement people have done good jobs and consequently we are playing well. Bellard says, playing the best since we have been Perhaps the biggest reason for optimism is quarterbacks David Shipman, Keith Baker and David Walker, currently running one-two-three. quarterback situation is the best been. We have three people ready to play, and they are Bellard believes. Shipman will be the starter but Bellard says he will not hesitate going to Baker if things going well.

And Walker, the starter two years ago as a freshman who quit in spring training and then came back. See AGGIES, Page 5C Green nabs 1-shot lead By BARRY ROBINSON Sports Editor COLLEGE STATION Sportswriters ho made Texas the favorite in this Southwest Conference football race may have made big mistakes. If things go as well in Aggieland as head coach Emory Bellard expects, the SWC title just might end up in Texas paws. According to Bellard. the man who turned things around for the Aggies, his team has no major weakness this season.

In fact, it might not have a weakness, period. After Bellard had reviewed the offense, position by position, a reporter commented, "Emory, let me get this straight. in great shape at all spots? You have any weaknesses. replied Bellard, told you exactly what I And he thinks the Aggies can do as good or better than last season when they shared the Southwest Conference title. won 10 straight a year ago but now a two-game losing streak after heart-breaking, back-to -back losses to Arkansas and Southern Cal (in the bowl game).

Nobody questioned the ability of defense in 1975 but some critics were unhappy with the offense, saying it lacked consistency. jr Itt AKRON, Ohio (AP) Hubert Green parlayed his crouched and curious putting style into a sparkling, five-under-par 65 and assumed sole control of the lead Friday in the second round of the new-look World Series of Golf. Green, winner of three consecutive tournaments earlier this year, one- V' WSG SCORES, Page 5C putted 10 times on this warm, sunny day and compiled a two-round total of 136. That put him four strokes under par on the tough, South course at the Firestone Country Club, a layout so long and difficult Green has avoided it for three years. Jack Nicklaus, ho won four World Series titles under its old four-man, 36-hole format, scrambled out of almost constant trouble with a 70 and a 138 total, just two shots back.

Nicklaus, who had to fight his way back from a double-bogey five, was tied with Masters champ Ray Floyd, ho had another 69. Takashi Murakami, the Japanese star who shared the firstround lead with Hill, lost his delicate touch around the greens but benefitted from some lucky bounces and a phenomenal stroke of fortune when his approach on the parfive 16th hit the pond that guards the green and, for some reason, skipped across the water, ran up the bank and onto the trreen. He finished with a 72 and was the only other man under par in this elite event at 139. played my last three rounds here in 1973 in 69-70-70 and that was by far the best ever Green said. swore then I come back until I learned to play golf a little Green, aided by a new brand of ball that he said added 15 yards to his drives off the tee, had a one stroke lead over veteran Dave Hill.

By JOHN HINES Of THE EXPRESS NEWS STAEf The Highlands Owls scored a touchdown with 1:13 to play to edge the McCollum Cowboys, 20-18, in their 1976 season-opener at Har- landale Memorial Stadium Friday night. Frank winning four-yard plunge over a big hole provided by the right side of the Highlands line capped a 62-yard drive and turned defeat into victory. McCollum had taken an 18-14 lead with 5:28 left with the aid of a 38-yard pass interference call. The tally came on John three-yard burst over the left Hines side. Both Leal and Williams scored twice apiece for their teams.

The other Highlands TD came on a fumble recovery in the Cowboy end zone by Hillard Jackson after Eddie DuPont took the ball in from the six and lost it. Rudy Sanchez kicked the two extra points that made the difference, with the Owls trying an unsuccessful pass after their game-winning tally. quarterback Terry Raley, who threw 25 scoring passes last up for his first of the new season, a 34-varder on the money to split end Bill Hall in the third quarter. The Cowboys tried a kick and two passes on their conversions, but cor- nerback Paul Sanders broke up the first aerial try after second TD and the home club was guilty of offensive pass interference to nullify a completion after their final score. It was Sanders who got called for defensive interference against Hall at the Highlands three.

Carlos Baladez had recovered a fumble at the 41 to give McCollum the ball midway through the last stanza. The play set up the TI) that gave the Cowboys their 18-14 margin. But Highlands came right back in its do-or-die situation in a drive engineered by Bobby Hyatt, third Owl quarterback of the night. A big play was a 17-vard pass to wide receiver Eddie White to the 19. only the second and last pass in the 12-play march.

The other was a screen to Richard Richmond for a gain of eight on third-and-six from the Cowboy 48 and it kept the drive alive. Highlands surrendered a first-period TD, then came back with two of its own in the second quarter for a 14-6 lead at the half. Both came on 51-yard drives, with Williams tallying the first on a 34-yard trap up the middle, then contributing a 20-yard gain to the McCollum 11 on the second scoring journey. McCollum had two non-scoring threats wrapped around its 63-yard first-quarter drive. Randy Thomas contributed a 19-yarder to the Highlands 28, then Leal sped around left end on a pitchout for the final eight yards.

Jesse De Hoyas, right linebacker, picked a fumble out of the air and rambled half the length of the field to the Highlands 12 early in the contest. However, the Cowboys get it in, first an illegal procedure cull See HIGHLANDS, Page 5C wmyymmw. zt WILLIAMS RUNS AND LAURA ASCHBACHER CHEERS by Steve Campbell Jay wins 20-6 By JEFF GROSSMAN Of THE EXPRESS-NEWS STAEf The Jay Mustangs walked softly and carried a big stick as they defeated the Roosevelt Rough Riders, 20-6, Friday night at Northside Stadium. Lament Jefferson and Kenny Perron stepped lightly for the Mustangs, scoring touchdowns on runs of 67 and 23 yards, respectively. And sticking it to the Rough Riders in a big way were Eloyd Gonzales, Woody Woodruff and Earl Graham, who combined to pick up four Roosevelt turnovers.

Gonzales completed the Jay scoring with two field goals and a pair of extra points. Paul Palmer scored all of the Rough points on a five-yard run on the second play of the fourth quarter. Jay scored three times in the second quarter, all as a result of Roosevelt turnovers. Graham recovered a Roosevelt fumble at Ihc Jay 18 with 1:40 left in the first quarter. On the first play of the second period, Jefferson burst through a Chargers win by 1 By ELAINE NOLL Of THE EXPRESS NEWS STAff sleeping offense awoke just in time to score a touchdown in the final five minutes and defeat Holmes, 7-6, in a non-district Class AAA A football game at North East Stadium.

Nearly 7,000 fans watched an exhi- lerating contest which was highlighted by David precision passing and Robert electrifying running. Neither team could make any kind of penetration in the first quarter. Fumbles and dropped passes kept the football at midfield most of the period The Huskies got on the board first midway through the second stanza. Churchill was forced to punt on its first series and Carl Elder returned the ball to 16-yard line. After a carry by runningback Fred Hall, which went nowhere, Huskies coach Frank Arnold decided to go to the air.

Quarterback David Worsham lobbed a high spiral down the left sideline, which dropped neatly into the kands of Jake Willis. The senior See CHURCHILL, Page 5C Grossman Mac by 42-8 See JAY, Page 3C By HARRY PAGE Of THE EXPRESS NEWS STAff bulldozing Brahmas amassed 347 yards in total offense in taming the Jefferson Mustangs. 42-8, before 4,310 fans Friday night at Alamo Stadium. Quarterback Jamie Martin scored on a four-yard run, passed 21 yards to end Ricky McKinney for another, kicked four conversions, and ran a two-point conversion for MacArthur, which looked impressive in its season debut. Running backs Gary Klumpp and BUI Gibbon, reserve back Darnell Grunt, and reserve quarterback Mike Adamo accounted for the otht'T touchdowns.

Jefferson averted a shutout when Brent Johnson scored a three-yard run early in the fourth period. Halfback Marcy Gonzalez passed to flanker Darryl Hemphill for the two-point conversion. The real stars of the night were junior fullback Mark Marbach, reserve back Carl Hartmann, and Mac-- See MacARTHI Page 3C Thunder kitchen needs dough ARD LAV finances 126 Of THE EXPRESS NEWS SIAff The possibility of San Antonio losing the Thunder is basically a problem of economics. The economic difficulty is centered within owner Ward business empire and includes the need for big-time money from San Antonians. Atlanta eyed It was revealed in Friday's edition of News Sports that the Thunder may move to Atlanta within a month if Lay is unable to find sufficient local investors to help him operate soccer club.

Lay currently owns WO per cent of the Thunder operation and the club has lost shoo ooo two Reasons Dallasitfs own all the Thunder stock and Lay realizes he must obtain local investment if the team is to remain in Han Antonio and receive consideration from the Alamo City business community. San Antonio businesses have virtually ignored the Thunder, particularly in the all-important area of season tickets, for two years. trying to get other investors in San Antonio right Lay said. The Thunder had local investors in Us initial season but all exited in 1976. Lay is upbeat about the sport of soccer but admits he afford to take a financially beating singularly, "I do a lot of business in real estate." Lay continued, things have been slowed by the economy plus my situation in Sun Antonio hurts me like to be able to make a decision by the middle of month," Lay said, referring to San professional soccer status frankly.

I afford to take this kind of loss personally I'm bullish on soccer but I know who or where my partners will be. hope be in Sun Lay said. Three weeks ago Lay talked with Atlanta officials about the Thunder. That Georgia city has frequently been mentioned as a possible NASI, expansion site. 2 stadiums Sources told The Express-News that if the Thunder moved to Atlanta, two stadiums would he available One would be Atlanta Stadium, the home of the Braves and NFL Falcons, which scats 52.744 Another facility is in Fulton County and scats Former Thunder coach Don revealed to The Express-News prior to his resignation that the soccer club bad been contacted about the franchise availability 1977.

Several cities, including Atlanta, were interested. Some cities and potential investors apparently went as far as to talk about stadium packages. The Thunder presently has a concessions dilemma with the San Antonio School District, the group which owns Alamo Stadium, the playing site The Express-News learned that Atlanta, which was a member of the NASL from 1968 to 1973, has a youth soccer program of three times larger than Sail Antonio s. "If 1 were looking at other cities, Atlanta would be one of them," Lay admitted, making reference to the search and not his own think the NASL will 24 teams in 1977 but stay Lay dot expand to ith 20 i ilo th shifts this ik tin ear wilt i eh he um l.uv he DON HAITI isn.