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Senior safety Steven Terrell snagged two picks in A&M’s 58-10 win over Arkansas, continuing A&M’s improvement in the ever-significant arena of turnovers.
Turnover terror Terrell makes his mark forcing key takeaways
A look at the stats ◗ Senior safety Steven Terrell leads the Aggies this year in interceptions with two. Both came last week in the win against Arkansas. ◗ Terrell has 13 tackles on the season. ◗ The safety from Allen, Texas, has a total of 91 tackles in maroon and white.
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o remember the last truly elite defenses to don the maroon and white, A&M fans have to look back to R.C. Slocum’s “Wrecking Crew” of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Known rightfully as “Linebacker U” in the same era — with such greats as Aaron Wallace, John Roper and Quentin Coryatt — there was one area of strength often overlooked in Slocum’s stalwart units: defensive backs. Since the end of the “Wrecking Crew” era following Slocum’s departure and as the game of football evolved into more “spread based” concepts, the secondary hasn’t lived up to its previously exceptional reputation. One of the larger question marks for the 2012 season in a conference
known for its defense, the A&M secondary was hurting for experience. After losing four seasoned seniors and as underclassmen were injected into starting jobs, the unit was begging for a leader. Senior safety Steven Terrell answered the call. Named a team captain prior to
the season’s beginning, the speedy great as our offense is, we know if defensive back is making his pres- we get turnovers they’re going to ence known after mixed experi- turn them into points,” Terrell said ence as a starter and backup. With following the Aggies’ 58-10 drub91 career tackles, two interceptions bing of the Razorbacks. “That’s and 11 career starts leading all we were working on, up to his senior year, trying to get turnovers. Terrell had his sights Luckily we got some Check out page 4 set on going out the this week.” for a look into Ole right way in his fiTurnovers were Miss’ legendary nal hurrah. a rare commodity tailgating In a heated rifor the Aggies in experience: valry game with 2011, a commodity The Grove. serious season imdesperately needed plications against Aras the offense was regkansas, Terrell did what ularly distributing it to the Aggies couldn’t accomother teams. A similarly talplish a year prior: force turnovers ented conference rival with com— and two to boot. parable expectations that season, “This whole week we’ve been Oklahoma State, took advantage emphasizing turnovers because as of turnovers better than any other
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team by forcing 44 takeaways. The Aggies, meanwhile, only forced 15 last year. The result? Oklahoma State skyrocketed to a 12-1 record and conference championship status. The Aggies skidded to a disappointing 7-6 finish after a preseason Top 10 ranking. By Terrell picking off vaunted Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson twice — particularly the first with the score at 13-10 A&M — he bucked more than the trend of losing to Arkansas, but possibly the trend of losing much at all. Head coach Kevin Sumlin lauded the initial interception and teased Terrell for nearly giving the See Terrell on page 2
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Male pageant raises minority awareness A&M travels to Oxford for first conference road game Joseph Puente
Special to The Battalion
Among the student body at Texas A&M University are developing role models and leaders within respective organizations who emphasize academic success and applied skills. Within these diverse organizations are underrepresented students who demonstrate a commitment to serving their university and becoming men and women who others want to follow. The Xi Psi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., has been on the A&M campus since 1985, and has served the community through countless projects from providing free childcare services to single parents in Bryan-College Station to having a scholarship pageant for underrepresented men at Texas A&M. The Xi Psi Chapter will be holding their fourth annual “Mr. Ivy League Scholarship Pageant” at 6:08 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center’s Bethancourt Ballroom on Oct. 6. The pageant is themed “Havana Nights.” “This pageant serves as a way to highlight the underrepresented leaders and role models on campus who can easily be overshadowed at a predominantly white institution,” said
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“But what about the three hours the week after that? The Battalion The Aggies (3-1, 1-1) be- The ability to keep focus and lieve they broke a barrier last maintain a certain level of play week in a home victory over takes maturity.” Few have talked about the Arkansas, notching their first Aggies this season without Southeastern Conference win mentioning freshman quarterand proving they can retain a large lead. Moving the ball in back Johnny Manziel in the same breath. In the friendly confines four career starts, of Kyle Field and Ole Miss Manziel has yet to snatching a win from thus far surrender a single an SEC opponent on turnover and ac◗ Ole Miss is 3-2 the road are two difcounted for 16 on the season and ferent games. touchdowns and 0-1 in SEC play. A&M makes its 1,460 total yards. conference road de- ◗ Last week, the leading but against Ole Miss Rebels lost 33-14 to A&M’s passer and rusher, (3-2, 0-1) Saturday Alabama on the Aggie offense in Oxford, Miss. has begun and endHead coach the road. ed with Manziel to Kevin Sumthis point in the season. In his lin said last week’s 58-10 last outing, Manziel’s 557 total thrashing of Arkansas was promising, but consistency yards broke school and SEC single-game records. plays into the equation. Sumlin said the quarterback “There are a lot of teams that can play well for three See Ole Miss on page 4 hours one week,” Sumlin said.
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Pageant contestants practice their dance performance for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sponsored “Mr. Ivy League Pageant,” taking place Saturday. Lucretia Stanfield, senior accounting major and president of Alpha Kappa Alpha. “The contestants are able to serve as role models for other minority males on campus and are able to
prove that they can stand out in the crowd as well.” The six candidates were selected after being considered men of high See Pageant on page 3
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Sophomore biomedical sciences majors Rolando Gomez, Jeremiah Burks and Maria Melgar look at photos from A&M’s past on a timeline Thursday afternoon at the MSC. The timeline was put on display for the University’s 136th birthday, showing images from 1876 to the present.
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ball back to Arkansas in his excitement. He then expounded on the significance of the mighty takeaway. “I thought that was a big play. He tried to give it back to them. I saw [it] on the big screen to see what all the commotion was,” Sumlin said. “We’ve been talking since we’ve been here
about critical plays and game-changing plays … they’re not only turnovers, they’re game-changers.” Terrell’s interceptions were gamechangers indeed. What was a 13-10 grudge match became 27-10 at the half. After picking off his second Wilson pass at the beginning of the second-half, Arkansas had lost its will to fight. Terrell said the win over the Razorbcks, a team he had not performed well against in previous meetings, was espe-
cially meaningful to him. It was also a sign of his increased maturity as a leader of the team. “I’m trying to do my job and help the team, be a leader for these younger guys,” Terrell said. “It was a big win for us, especially for me. I’ve played horribly, honestly, against Arkansas until this year. It was a big game for me, a big game for this defense and the whole team.”
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morals with ethical standards. They were also required to be in good academic standing with the University and must have demonstrated an active approach in the community and various organizations. “I feel it’s a great way to foster awareness of the diverse community at Texas A&M,” said Lauren Jackson, junior accounting major and pageant co-chair. “Through the pageant we want to show students that racial barriers in education no longer exist.” The pageant will consist of contestants modeling one style of clothing as well as formal evening wear, a five to six minute talent performance, and a debate where contestants will have six to eight minutes to present their standpoint on a current event or political issue of their choice. “A lot of what we work on is personal development. As an African-American or Hispanic, the community here is small, so you see a lot of support from each other,” said Alana Frailey, senior sociology major and pageant chair. “Most of them have never been on stage, but when the lights hit they’ll also have the support of
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has improved and is learning to handle success. “Based on results, he’s been pretty good,” Sumlin said. “You see him getting better. That’s all part of it. As a young guy, you have to handle success at all positions, more so at quarterback. Like me [as head coach], you get too much credit when you win and all the blame when you lose.” As successful as A&M’s offense has been — ranked seventh nationally with an average of 48.3 points per game — the defense has been similarly statistically productive. The unit slots in eighth nationally, allowing 11.8 points per game. Defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said this is a result of the athletes buying into the culture. “We still have a lot of work to do,” Snyder said. “I think the kids are buying in. We asked them to create turnovers; don’t give up the deep ball. The kids are doing that week in and week out. The glaring thing for me [against Arkansas] was simply our tackling ability.” During week three, Ole Miss competed against the No. 11 Texas Longhorns and fell 66-31. Last week, No. 1 Alabama dispatched Ole Miss 33-14. Senior receiver Ryan Swope said the Aggies should expect a hostile, engaged crowd. “I expect Ole Miss to be a crazy atmosphere,
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real loud,” Swope said. “This is going to be special for us and is what I came back for to play, to go out and experience all those SEC schools. It’s going to be cool to see everything these teams have to offer. I’m really excited about it.” The Rebels will likely lean on sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace, who Damontre Moore, senior defensive lineman, said is unlike any quarterback A&M has seen this season. “We have to be very disciplined,” Moore said. “He’s the most athletic quarterback we’ve played all year. He’s a little more agile.” Five of A&M’s next six games take place away from Kyle Field, including a date with No. 1 Alabama. Senior linebacker Jonathon Stewart said the team must shake the temptation to look ahead. “If we start worrying about LSU and Alabama, then those future games will become insignificant because we didn’t take advantage of the opportunity we had,” Stewart said. After the 58 points posted against preseason Top 10 Arkansas, there were some murmurs of disappointment when the weekly polls were posted and A&M was left out. Stewart said the polls change nothing. “If we were ranked [No.] 23 we would be the same exact team,” Stewart said. “We know how much talent we have on this team. We know what we’re capable of doing. It’s not a big-time priority for us right now. There’s still a lot of season to play.”
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