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SMU’s Point Makers
Rice Bops Fish
in 3rd Straight
Defeat, 52-7
SMU’s Point Makers
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
An over-anxious, fumbling Fish
bleven lost to an inspired Rice
Owlet team, 52-7 on Kyle Field last
night.
It was the Fish’s third straight
loss of the season, having lost
previous games to the Texas Chris
tian Polywogs and the Baylor
Cubs.
Johnny Salyer of the Fish was
the top man in rushing' the Aggies
with 69 yards;, second in ground
gaining was Pete Mayeux, who
racked up a total of 29 yards net
rushing.
Only one injury seems to have
come from the game.
Bob Gosney, center for the Fish,
was X-rayed this morning for a
possible fractured wrist, which
could bench him for the remainder
of the season.
The Owlet’s mainstay, Bill Gas-
kamp, a hot little halfback from
Brenham, had approximately 100
yards gained in rushing, including
two TD’s.
His running mate, Carl Johnson,
Kyle Rote
Killer Kyle needs no introduction, but this year
he has attempted to fill the Doaker’s shoes
and is trying them for si/e now. “Little Rusty”
is the signal and play caller on the Mustang
eleven, and one might say with “Little Rusty”
out on the field, “Big Rusty” is there also.
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Page 4 WED., NOV. 8, 1950
First Met in ’46 HS Playoffs
Bruisin 9 Bob, Killer Kyle Meet Again
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Sports Editor
This weekend in the Cotton Bowl,
the two best hardcharging backs
to have played in the Southwest
Conference during the past decade
’ will meet again.
A&M’s Fullback Bruisin’ Bob
Smith first met SMU’s Halfback
Killer Kyle Rote in a high school
grid clash between Thomas Jeffer
son of San Antonio and Lamar of
Houston. Smith attended Lamar
and Rote was in Jefferson.
The game in which the two were
participating was the all important
tilt in the ’46 state playoffs—a
game which would send one team
into the semifinals to face Lufkin
and the other would be eliminated
from play.
And this weekend, the same sit
uation arises and in many respects
both Rote and Smith were in sim
ilar positions on their high school
teams that they are today.
Loser Will Be Out
The winner of the tilt Satur
day will throw one team from the
conference race while it will al
low the other to continue ahead
and hope for the chance of winning
the conference. But going back to
the high school game, here’s what
happened.
Smith, the top ground gainer for
the Bayou City titlists as well as
the leading scoter in the city race
with 60 points, lined up to boot
the opening kickoff. Rote, well
known as one of Texas’ all-time
great running backs and noted also
for his >passing and punting abil
ity, moved into position to receive
the kickoff.
A description of what followed
was best expressed in the words
of the sports writers who saw the
game.
“. . . the greatest threat . . .”
“. . . I’d like to mention that
probably the greatest treat I’ve
ever had in covering sports was a
tackle that Smith hung on Kyle
Rote when Lamar met Thomas Jef
ferson in the quarterfinal game of
the state high school AA playoffs,”
Jerry Ribnick of The Houston
Chronicle writes.
“It was the first play of the
game. Rote took the kickoff on
his own 10, returned up the field
to the 30 where he was met head-
on by Smith. The collision between
the two was heard from one end
of the field to the other.
“The ball went one way, Rote
the other, and Smith the other.
Lamar recovered, the fumble, but
j couldn’t go, and the final windup
favored Jefferson. But that tackle
that started the game was still the
top thrill of the day,” Ribnick
says.
Never Thought He’d Get Up
Said John Hollis of the Houston
Press: “When he (Smith) hit him
you never thought Kyle would get
up. He did. But it was eight yards
back from where he had carried
the ball.
“That was the first meeting of
Bob Smith and Kyle Rote and it
was a coming together,” Hollis em
phasizes.
From the San Antonio Light,
Johnny Janes wrote: “He (Smith)
and Rote made contact on the open
ing kickoff when Bob tackled Kyle
so hard that he fumbled. It was a
characteristic Smith tackle.”
Last year the two met again,
but this time it was Smith, who
led his team to glory, scoring three
touchdowns to give the underdog
Aggies a 27-27 tie with the Mus
tangs.
But Rote was not to be denied
as he too had his share of the spot
light.
In that fray, Smith not only
scored three of the Aggies touch-
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downs but he gained 175 yards in
23 carries to lead the ground gain
ers.
Rote’s greatest achievement in
the game was his 100 yard runback
on the kickoff with the score tied
20-20 which gave the Ponies the
lead after the Cadets had come up
all the way from a 6-20 deficit.
Again, look to the other sport-
writers and see what was thought
of the second meeting between the
two:
From the Dallas Morning News:
“ . . . Out of football’s graveyard
rose the dead men of Texas A&M.
Entombed for weeks and shrouded
in gridiron losses they came to life
Saturday with staggering and bril
liant exhibition on Kyle Field. They
tied the Southern Methodist Mus
tangs, eighth ranking in the na
tion, 27-27, before 31,800 persons
who cheered the resurrection . . .
(By the way, SMU is 7th in the
nation now—Editor’s Note.)
“There was no fluke about the
Aggies’ great upset. They played
heroically, particulary Smith . . .
“Walker was his old self Satur
day, but neither he nor Rote, nor
Folsom, nor the rest could with
stand the Aggie rally . . .
“ . . . Tacklers Fell ...”
“Smith, almost alone, paraded at
the head of two of A&M’s three
last-half touchdown marches. Tack
lers fell off his supercharged, tear
ing body like autumn leaves from a
giant oak. On Saturday he was one
of the greatest fullbacks in South
west Conference history, lunging
along for 175 yards, an average of
7 yards every time he pulled the
ball to his side and roared goal-
ward . . .
The Associated Press voiced:
. . It was a pounding fullback
Bob Smith, and a spirit that burned
as bright as the sun overhead that
(See SMITH and ROTE, Page 6)
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from San Jacinto in Houston, piled
up 79 yards in 13 carries.
The Owlets’ eight TD’s were di
vided between McNeill Moore, from
Center, Texas, who scored twice;
as did Gaskamp; and Kosse John
son, Denny Marsters, Bobby War
ren, and Blois Bridges; quarter
back Bobby Leggett to Blois
Bridges in pay dirt completed the
scoring for Rice.
Rice’s first score came when the
game was only four minutes old.
Their second followed soon after
ward, and the first half ended with
the little Owls ahead 27-0. Ray
mond Fenstemaker did all the
point-after-TD kicking for the
Owlets, making four good, out of
eight attempts.
On three punts the Owlets aver
aged 57 yards, while the Fish, be
cause ' of partially-blocked kicks,
averaged only about 30.
Mayeaux Scores
The only Fish tally was the re
sult of a 65 yard march on the
“ground and in the air.
Brilliant passing by Salyer,
whose tosses seemed to click dur
ing the third and final periods,
and great running by Pete Mayeaux
accounted for the sudden and in
spiring drive on the Owlets’ goal.
Haskell’s Bobby Price made the
conversion to make the score 7-33.
A&M threatened to cross the
double stripe once more, at the end
of the third quarter when a 54-yard
aerial and ground drive culminated
in Rice’s taking possession of the
ball on downs after two Salyer
passes were thrown for losses by
the efforts of the Owlets defense.
Injuries partially impaired the
offensive play of the Fish since
three men, Burt Koegl, John Neal,
and John Gibbens were side-lined.
The defensive backfield play of
the Fish team was better than par,
but they had bad breaks on of
fense; intercepted passes and fum
bles were their main problems.
Buck Gibson and Don Criswell
played outstanding games on de
fense, making many jarring tackles
and stopping the still kicking Owl
ets cold on three or four occa
sions.
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Johnny Champion
Benners leads the Southwest Conference in
total pass offense with 914 yards. Champion
is the smallest member of the Ponies quartet
but his speed and maneuverability prove helpful
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The Aggies continued working last time an Aggie eleven defeated
hard yesterday for their weekend I the SMU Mustangs was in 1946.
game with Southern Methodist |. . . Score 14-0.
Pass defense was the word as
Backfield Coach Dick Todd and
Assistant Coach Gil Steinke put
the defnsive backfield through an
extra hard workout. . .
Looking especially good were
Charley McDonald, Augie Saxe,
Yale Lary, Glenn Lippman, and
Billy Tidwell . . . Tidwell returned '
to the starting line-up for the com
ing week after having set out at,
the start of the Arkansas game |
because of minor injuries. . . i
Lary, who last week sparkled J
against Arkansas, scoring four i
touchdowns, continued yesterday to j
boot the ball with his always ever- j
present power and precision. . .
Linebacker Jimmy Flowers, who '
is from Dallas, is working harder I
than ever for this game as is every- j
one else, says he, “I’ve got a special ;
reason” . . . Flowers played high
school ball at Highland Park where j
he was an all-stater. . . He played
along with the Doaker and the
rest. . .
Roommates Dorbandt Barton and
Bob Bates are two of the Aggies
best men on the defensive platoon
of the Cadet eleven. . . They .too
are eager for Saturday. . . Last
year’s tilt was a 27-27 tie The
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