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L' Prr-%- E TCU Salvages Tie In Offensive Battle T , , . ' ' With Okla. Aggies Fort Worth, Sept. 26^ > )4 i rbe 13 when the final whistle ended 33^33 thriller Saturday night. score was ei] tied the TCXJ-Okla. ' ; Three times the cowpokes from Ok! for touchdowns and three times the Ho lahoma A&M pa orned Frogs mi ^ i f the feat. m I 'A 1 a**: i ]. There was even balance in each club's remaining scares—one each on long, brilliant runs, one each on line plays. F ; ; The team of Oklahoma A&M nev er trailed, thanks to the uncanny manrksmanShip of little Jack Hart man and the sticky fingered receiv- \ j. ing of biy Don Van Pool. This combination clicked fbr three touch downs. - Berry Stgrs Texas Christian stormed from behind for the tie and twice muffed scoring chances. Lindey Berry, who passed for two touchdowns and scored two himself, was the v I. reason TCU gained an even break. '■ , The remarkable receiving of Mor ris Bailey and George Boal helped. 1 The Hartman-to-Van Pool com bination clicked for touchdowns oh pusses of 44, D and 28 yards. Ben L v Aldridge scored a cowpoke touch down on a two yard plunge and Ed 1 • * Rpof ' intercepted one .of Berry’s ;• j passes and ran tJ yards for another. 1 'Berry sqored on a ten yard run, a 78 yard: punt return! passed to George Bdal for Id yards and 34 . yard to Jack Archer. uDan Wilde passed ^ yards' to Bailey for the othurnouchftown. ! i f J’lace-KIckerH A If Even 1 s Haitman kicked -three extra minis fot Oklahoma j; A&M and ner Ludlkcr Idckca three for play. ... : J. f rI r| Berry went the last ten yards a 39 yard touchdown drive. In the third, Ropf cut Ipojse v^i his 56 y4rd scam to Boal and then long scoijing run. Berry’i 34 yard scoring heave \v«ind uji the scoring. iper, Berry n took off points for OklahomaX Hamer Ltidlkcr ldokefl Ahe Hornsd Fnigs. Midlkef kfcke* m\ .FrugsT Texas moved to the: ‘“'.'•‘Vos! two yard line nrldway; fourth huuiter and at the If' I M. -j; i. i end of play was back on the one yard line. Several times during the I/:.': game the. Frogs wore Within the; Cowpokes' 20 yard line.. r Oklahoma A&M moved 71 yards in seven plays for its first touch-1 • down, in thb first quarter., Hart- i man passed to Van Pool for tka final 44 : - : ; '- The Cowpokfs struck quickly for three mole /scores in the second quarter. Hartman connected wiht Van Pool for nine yards in. a seven play 43 yard drive, Aldridge .went c over from the two yard line after A Darrel Meisenheimer had blocked Bobby McFarland’s punt on the ..TCU five and;Hartman passed to Van Pool again, this one 28 yards. WilBe Sparks Drive Wilde sparked TCU’s first scor ing drive, an./81 yard affair, cli maxed by his 40 t yard pass to Bai ley. Aldridge tipped (the ball into Bailey’s hands rpidway during the X ' 1 SKTUJMY ^HUVWItJMRTMjk NOW: LAST DAY U- pi r i- k\-- r l ,! i i . •: if X' \r TUESDAY j- [ ll ILLEGUENTW Howaid Dull • Karta IURLN ■ George BRENf Steers Trample Temple Owlsl R ! Fast m, 54*0 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Bept; 26 —(A*)—-The University of; Texas, making its second football Appear ance In the East, established foot ball history today by drubbing Templb <54-0 in a great display of running and passing poWtfr. ]The Whipping was the worst elver; ab sorbed by a Temple eleven,jj'; | Temple, making Its debut under head coach A1 Kawal, never /was in th« ball ganie from the time Randy Clay bucked over from! the three ykrd llhe after two winutbs and ftfl seconds of play ;f6r the first of hts three touchqowfts. The Longhorns from Texas ftmt 82 ynrdk for thcjr first tliliy. 71V for thcll’ second and (then! a mete 25 for the third In the first half. ffObVM Made After IKalf l : The first tally of the third per iod came at the end of a 100-ynrd march and then 1 Texas travelled 94, 79, 85 and 51 to itajotjher trips Into the end zonej' $ome idea of the Texas all-around pow er Is shown by the statistics. The Southwest Conference boys picked up 613 yards om the ground and in the Air. After Clay had sent the Texafts ‘ J ie visitors iniarchled line at the; end of period. Clay completed the Journey on the first play of the second quarter. With 55 sec onds remaining in the |tialf| tlhe 185-pound Clay completed ahopi- er long march by going oVer from the W^-yard stripe. 'P^xas Offense BefwtdleS Ray Borneman, 205-pound : full back bulled his way from the, 12 to start the last half rout came a series of long n passes that left the Tempi: eleven befuddled.. TJhe first was a 45- yard pass from pitcher P au 1 Campbell to Ben Proctor, a good battery all | day, for TexaS’i fifth' tally. ' | ' F - |j| jji J Bobby I^ee, a right falrj pltcherj himself,' climaxed the |7®1-/ yard drive for the sixth by darting round left end for 55 yards: John Adams and Bubba Mayes: com pleted the scoring ih the final sesi .sion. Adams’ score was on: a 46-j yard pass from Lee' jand May: on a 31-yard heave i from Tompkins. | 1 • ' A-Y ‘I Bob Smith digs up field for one of his many gains despite the extra weight imposed upon him by a burly Tech tackle who wants to ride along. Max Greiner (60) and Bob Bates (56) lead his inter- Atao shown are Aggies Dwayne Tuck er 1(75)4 ,XY , , (79), ann Bobby Goff (SS) Carl Mohlberg (67), Mickey Spencer Photo by San An- tice Mends Ways, Starts Fast, Senior-laden Owls Trounce Clemson 9 33-7, in Opener HOUSTON, Sept. 26—<-5*1—Clem- and two fumbles brought abrupt short plunge at left tackle. qndings to fivjp of Clomsonjs eight Two more quljck touchdowns offensive chances the first t vo per son, defending Southern Confer ence champion, was bothered 1 con stantly by fumbles and pass inter- ceptionx in the fir*t half and could ■ ■ VWI the n the nri)t half and ci not make hendway againat tint well manned Rice defense until! final period, loalng 7 to 83. Fred Cone, fullback, ended n «:■- yard fourth quarter Clemaon drive with u two-yard dive over center. Tommy Chandler kicked the ex tra point. Three Interceptions, all by Rice- reserve center Gerald Weatherly, iwbJ ; Rice Scores First The first fumlde was rAmvered by Rice op the Clemaon 17 Mid way in the opening period and fttoe had Its first touchdown fivi* plays later, Fullback Bobby Lnntrip hit ting center from the three, A 40-yard Mcumper by Halfback Sonny Wyattr setup the second Rice score three minutes later, with Harold Riley scorlni’ on a ns and .jfeg Scoring { Texas . 1....... ’femplje, X ...... Texas : scoring Clay 3, Borneman Davis, Mayes. . Points after touchdowns- Clay Davis 2. * ; I : Y oring , j 7 20 1 0 9 Oi y. Touqhdowi mn, Proctor, 20 i4t4-5^ OU-Y hdownaJi-4 .;.n. '■'IX: ! ' Y •. : XX'- 1'i \ SIX' j" » GYM SHOES s T r 11 i . ; k - 4 , i- Hie shoes you need ^ W*th these sport shoes for Mira ipMdi. You buy the bert—. 4 !■ •: You’ll never Hie best In the land— .lluy'ra made by. The Exchange Store msm “Serving Texqs came early in thej third period as the Owl's Quarterback Tobin Rote took to the air to launch success ful drive* of 80 and 70 yard*. Williams Catcjies TD I’ass An 8-yard to»s to end Froggie Williams produced, the third acore, while reserve Halfback Billy Burk- httlter, a sophomore, scampered 22- yards forj the fodrth, George Glauser,; another reserve period M-yard todendown drive by K< halfback wound bp Rice’s final Wtoq H Oring William* made on throe scoring from the two. * •! gi of hi* five conversion attempt*. Final Btatistic* gave Rice 233 yards through the air and 225 net yard* on the ground. Clemson made 138 passing and 184 rushing. Razorbacks Take NTS Eagles, 33 -19 LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Sept. 28— The University of Arkansas launched its new formation before 12,500 fans here Saturday night with the breakaway running of Leon ‘‘Muscles” Campbell and a 33-19 victory oVer North Texas State. But the team from Denton threw a scare into the Southwest Confer ence eleven before falling under a barrage of points in the last half. The Texans trailed 6-0 midway in the game and led 13-12 near the end of the third jquarter. North Texas , made 19 first downs to 10 for the Razorbacks. Campbell, the jbig fullback who has been hampered in practice by a hernia, rushed 236 yards in 15 carries, more thain the entire Texas team gained throughout the game. Campbell scored twice, once on a 53-yard run and again on a 78- yard jaunt. Sammy Furn, the smallest man on the Arkansas squad, romped 65 yards for anoth er score. The passing of Cecil Martin and the running of Bill Lallicker and Ned McNeill kept the Texas team in the game all] the way. klker Passes pple Deacons JJ f * 1 For 1J-7 tin | DALLAS, Sept. 26—<&•>—The g^eat Walker passed for bpth touch downs as the Methodists opened the season ijnbressively for 61,000 fails in the cptton bowl with a 13-7 Win over Wake Forest. I One pass was to Zohn Milam for 31 yards and a score. The other Was a screen pass to Dick McKis- sack that ate Up 49 yards, j The tough Deacons stopped most everything ^Southern Methodist ied except Walker’s passing. The !ret half found Wake Forest outl aying the Methodists pretty sol- |Bn* J •: j • . J jj; . 1 j • * , 'i'. . Deacon Black* Pipit 1 i, The Deacons’ score came late In the opening period and Walker was the goat. Jim Staton, tower of the Wake Forest line and greatest de fensive player on the field, lum bered through to block a Walker Ptint. ■ Doak fell on the ball but two Mfake Forest players 'fell bn him abd the oval squirted out of his hiinds. Ed Knrpus dropped on the ball on the two-yard line. Bill Gre- gk* powered through left tackle for ai)touchdown and Bill George kick- e(j the extra point. \ a Ponies TD Passes ; Southern Methodist got its first touchdown late in the second per- ibR. In two plays, the Methodists swarmed 72 yards, Walker passed td; Milam for 41 yards then pitched oyer the gqkl line to Milam' for the score. Bill Weatherford lob bied the pass-back and hurried Walker’* try for point. A Whke Forest wave blocked the try. The winning touchdown came in thd third period. Walker pawed and Wako Fore*t’* Franci* Scar- ten tipped the ball into the hand* of SMU’s Kyle Koto. He ran tu the Wake Fprest 49. Walkar flip ped the ball over the line to Me- Klsiuck whq took it on the 40 and behind u scihfim of Methodist* ran untouched to the score. Walken -converted, j . ^ j f Baylor Defeats | » j> ■ J jj, south Carolina By Air, 20 - 6 WACO, ?ept| 26—'A*)—Passes brought Baylor its three touch- doWns, and also paved the wav for th|! South Carolina gamecocks 1 sin- % tally in the second opener for terns as the Bears won 20-6. arterback Adrian Burk of Hl/nde^on found his Baylor re- defcvers brilliantly, completing 10 of ifr passes. He tossed to left end Stanley Williams for 12 yards and a touchdown with 36 seconds re-, maining in fhe first quarter. End Henty Dickerson kicked ex tra pont. J 11 ■ !■ , Gamecocks Comeback South Carolina got back in the game in a hurry, when Sophomore Quarterback John Boyle started throwing the ball. Completions for 14, 16 and 12 yards* kept the (See BAYLOR, Page 4) Battalihn Q P O R T S Monday; September 2«. im» Page 3 Improv AndTi oved Blocking on Offense Tighter Defense Brings fin j j | ir (Continued from Paged!) '• i Not to be outdone, the Farmers started a aeries of rushing plays which found the ball on tne Tech _ two yard hne after nine straight f, plays from scrimmage. Smith made nis own hole in the right side of the line to again tally for Cadets. Shaetier put tne pl through the upright to make 13 to 7, Nip and tuck action dom: play, in the final quarter with gie penalties by the gross the scoring. downj < it At one time the Farmers had four straight penalties called I on them after Galveston’s John Chris tensen had returned a Tech punt to the Raider 16-yard line. It Was still third down' with 50 yilrds ninaied |, I still third dowp'. with. OU yams needed for a first down when Coach Stiteler sent in Yale Lary to l^ick. Rail ‘ gall ng p Smith’s Smith j. luJi a Soon ; after thl* 1 — thirty yards TD gallop nulified be cause, of a holding penalty agaiinst the Ags. n’• ... ;j Yale Lary further pfoved that he is ready |\for college football. The young soph fropi Ft. Wprth who starred on Fish,team last year, compiled a punting average: of 40.8 yard* and twice boptodUhe pigskin out of bounds around: thb ton yard line. • A vastly Improved line, both}, offensively and defensively, olay-. ed a major part % the needed trl- umph. | ' Ham Muse* ami Call Mulbeijg as well; a* senior Max Urelimr helped the cause coiisliferublyi ! ! Y ; Little I'bnnIiik Attempted ; Both team* stuck to the ground; Only d few arelals were attempted and I hey came It) tha extra tough spots. None, however, played u put a. story book ending the thrilling contest, the big Bmpp Ionian again proved hi* 1 'ruhning ability. With sepond* left till the njpi'bni nt»»YWvi4 major part In the Aggie victory To put a. Mtorp book eAdilDg brt :phh« pHi iMp game Smith took a handoff froth Gardemal, stormed through Hid own right guard and raced 8(> yards to bring the final score to 26-7. .,!./■!’■ j Just how completely the offense was a orie-two-three of Smith, Goff, and Lippmipn is shown by the statistics. Smith ih 28 carry's, averaged 7.2 yards per try (this figure doesn’t include his penalty nullified run of 40 'yaVds in the last quarter). Goff piVged up an average of 4.6 yards on each of his 17 rushes into the Raider line, arid Lippman carried the ball 12 .times with an aycrage pick-up Of 7 yards. Thus, of the net Aggie total of 370 yards from rushing, 'Smith gained 202, Lippman 85, and Goff 79. That’s what one would call potent. ] Statistics I J i : Y A&M TeCh First downs 45 . XM —f-i —j—j'-— i'*’],.' ""(Jj WVWYWVVVVWYW, L .SVASVVWWWVUOWiWASV.V INSURE TOMORROW:... TODAV i EUGENE RUSH; Genial Agent | American National Insurar/ Co. 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