University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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We played a good football game, with a lot of scratching and clawing, A kers said, after losing his second game to OU in six years at Texas, adding, I think we treated the fans to a hell of a football game: unfor- tunately, the other team won it. In the first quarter, OU freshman tailback Marcus Dupree, who started in place of in- jured senior Stanley Wilson, faked a reverse handoff and raced untouched around the right side for 3 yards, a touchdown, and a 7- Sooner lead. Texas struck back in the second quarter with an 80-yard drive to tie the game, 7-7. Brewer pitched left on an option to Mike Luck for 11 yards and on the next play scampered himself for 11 more. The Longhorns scored when Brewer rolled right and threw to a tumbling Herkie Walls in the right edge of the end zone. On OU ' s next possession, a 25-yard pass play, a three-yard TD run upped the score to 14-7. Texas added a 32-yard field goal just before the half to close the gap to 14-10. OU fullback Weldon Ledbetter caught the Texas linebackers edging to the outside in the third quarter and broke up the middle for a 59-yard touchdown run, stretching the Sooner lead to 21-10. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Brewer led Texas on another long scoring drive, throwing passes to Brent Duhon and Bobby Micho. Tailback John Walker soared over the goal line from the three-yard line to bring Texas within four points of the lead. After the score, Texas attempted a two-point conversion, but failed when a pass from Brewer to Carl Robinson was broken up. The Sooners stretched their lead to 28-16, then Ledbetter scored on a 15-yard run. The drive had been set up by fullback Fred Sims ' 51-yard run. Brewer took Texas on one more scoring drive. Passing on almost every down to con- serve time, Brewer finally found Herkie Walls, this time for a 27-yard touchdown, cutting the Sooner lead to 28-22. Texas got the ball back one more time, with enough time to score, but the drive ended when a lunging Sooner deflected a third down Brewer pass to Duhon. After Texas punted, OU quarterback Kelly Phelps picked up a first down on a 12-yard bootleg and the Sooners ran out the clock. Texas had lost to OU, but the Longhorns quickly forgot the chants of Poor Texas as they looked toward their most important oppo- nent: SMU. by Douglas Johnson Texas 17 SMU On Oct. 23, fate favored the fourth- ranked SMU Mustangs in week eight of I SWC football, SMU ' s Heisman Trophy can- didate Eric Dickerson led SMU with 118 yards to gallop over the 19th ranked Longhorns. The game got off to a sluggish start with the first quarter ending scoreless. The sec- ond quarter lit up the Scoreboard as Dicker- son ran for a touchdown, and a successful kick put the Mustangs ahead, 7-0. Third quarter action brought the Mustangs still further ahead of the ' Horns when SMU ' s | Jeff Harrell kicked a 30-yard field goal. The ' Horns did not give up; they still had gusto in the fourth quarter. Only a few minutes into the final quarter, Robert Brewer completed a 51 -yard pass to Bobby Micho and Raul Allegre successfully kicked an extra point. The ' Horns mounted a drive, but SMU cut it short and the ' Horns settled for a 41- yard field goal by Allegre that left the game in a stalemate. UT ' s defense piled up to stop Defensive tackle John Haines dives over the pile to recover a Tech fumble. The Longhorns ' defense stopped the Red Raiders all day as Texas won 27-0. 234 Football

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a Mustang rush, but fierce play left Jeff Leiding, dubbed All-American in pre-season, on the sidelines for the rest of the season. Minutes later, SMU ' s Lance Mcllhenny threw a pass to Bobby Leach which tipped Longhorn Jitter Fields ' fingers and landed in Leach ' s hands, giving SMU a 17-10 lead. With 49 seconds left, Mcllhenny com- pleted a pass to Craig James, ending the game in SMU ' s favor, 30-17. Center Mike Reuther was named offensive MVP with eight pins and graded the highest score of action during the game by any offensive lineman in UT history. by Sharlyn Kidd Texas 27 Texas Tech Texas quarterback Robert Brewer engineered the Longhorns ' comeback from two straight losses, giving Texas Tech an ap- propriate Halloween nightmare in the form of three touchdown runs, the first coming just before halftime on a tense fourth-and- goal from the Red Raider two-yard line. We just played our game, said UT defensive end Kiki DeAyala, who recorded two quarterback sacks. It was a brutally basic running attack and sound, aggressive defense. We just needed a couple of breaks to go our way, he said. The Red Raiders provided several of those breaks, fumbling the ball away three times, two on errant quarterback pitches. The Texas defense took advantage of Tech ' s mistakes, limiting the Red Raiders ' offense to 33 yards in the first half and only 134 yards for the game. On their first possession in the third quarter, the ' Horns scored after driving 80 yards in 15 plays, 14 of those on the ground. Later, Brewer scoied on a five-yard bootleg and Allegre added field goals of 33 and 37 yards in the fourth quarter. A last Tech drive died at the UT seven when reserve Michael Feldt recovered another Tech fumble. The defeat of Tech was Texas ' first shutout of a SWC team since a 13-0 muffling of Baylor in 1979. by Douglas Johnson Texas 50 Houston On Nov. 6, the Texas Longhorns opened up their offense in sheer razzle-dazzle style, full of delayed draw plays, bombs and fake reverses, defeating the Houston Cougars 50- 0. The ' Horns began their offensive siege on 236 Football . 1 ' t ' : fa K , -.- Punt returner Rob Moerschell tries to hurdle Mike Buchannan before being caught by Arkansas defende Defensive end Kiki DeAyala prepares for another of his Texas career-record 42 quarterback sacl - I