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Continues to Lead SWC In Scoring, Ground Gaining A&M continued to lead the con ference in ground gaining and total pf^ense over the past weekend of league competition. The Aggies now have a total of 2,349 yards rolled up on the. ground which combined with their aerial yardage equals 3,159 yards, an average of 394.7 yards for each of the eight games played this season. The Cadet eleven also continued to lead the conference in scoring as it boosted its season scoring record to 291 points, and its league total to 129. markers. * Largely responsible for this is Bruisin’ Bob Smith, who gained 301 yards against the SMU Mus- * tangs while losing only four in Bruisin’ Bob Smith | 29 carries — an average of 10.3 per,trip. Bruisin’ Bob with the ,ajd of a terrific line and downfield blocking has gained 1,124 yards on the ground this season, an aver age of 7.44 for each of his 151 „ carries. Smith Leads Scorers Smith also continued to lead the SWC in scoring with 14 touch downs, a total of 84 points for the season. In conference standings Texas leads with a 4-0 record, having de feated Rice, Arkansas, SMU, and Saturday Baylor, 27-20. The Long- .horns havh suffered only one loss this season, at the hands of the Oklahoma Sooners, 13-14. A&M is second in the conference /ace with a 3-1 record, having downed Arkansas, TCU, and this past weekend SMU, 25-20. The Farmers only loss was received from the Baylor Bruins, who are third in the running for the SWC . tilt. Baylor has won two while losing two, having lost to Texas and Ar kansas, while defeating TCU and , the Aggies. SMU, TCU, and Rice are tied for the following position on the league ladder, each having won one conference game while losing two. SMU Has 1-2 Record The Ponies have downed Rice while losing to the Steers and the Aggies. TCU, who remained inac tive over the weekend, has defeat ed Arkansas while losing to A&M and Baylor, and Rice has defeated Arkansas while losing to Texas and SMU. Saturday, the Owls edged the Razorbacks, 9-6, for their first -conference victory. Cellar-dwelling Arkansas has won only one game while losing four. 1'he Porkers defeated Baylor . while losing to A&M, Rice, TCU, and Texas. Ags To Meet Owls This coming weekend, the Ag gies tangle with the Feathered * Flock at College Station, Arkan sas and SMU test grips at Little ¥U< TODAY & TUESDAY THE YEARS MOST-TO-BE-HONORED PICTURE! mi „ ..... ... CAMSi MSWPE! MwUrt »«f Sc*—« Ny • CHttliSIflUIIUIlifeMA .tmw. LAST DAY Rock, Ark., and Texas meets the Horned Frogs at TCU, while the Bruins take a week off. Behind Smith in the top scorers of the conference are Kyle Rote of SMU, 84; Byron Townsend of TU, 00; Buddy Parker of Baylor, 54; Yale Lary of A&M, 36; Andy Hill- house of A&M, 36; Darrow Hooper of A&M, 33 (all PATs); and Bill Tidwell of A&M, George Glauser of Rice, Bill Howton of Rice, each with 30 points. 9 Rice 9, Arkansas 6 Bill Howton, a lightweight end who played the full sixty minutes, fired the Rice Owls to a 9-to-6 Southwest Conference football vic tory over hot and cold Arkansas before 20,000 unhappy homecomers. Howton, weighing 177 pounds, made an unbelievable catch of Ver non Glass’ 31-yard pass for the Rice touchdown in the first quar ter. Near the end he caught an other long throw by Glass deep in Arkansas territory to set up a safety that rounded out the Owl scoring. In between Rice scores, the fiery redhead played a major role in stopping four Razorback drives which pierced the Owl 20-yard line. Gridiron Sketch Rice Ark. First downs ..... 19 13 i i Rushing yardage . 284 162 m Passing yardage . ...... 78 103 Passes attempted . 19 7 Passes completed . 6 6 Passes intercepted .... 3 0 Punts 5 10 * Punting average . 34 37.2 Ml Fumbles lost 1 1 Yards penalized ... 40 30 Rice moved 86 yards for its touchdown. Big George Glauser, a powerhouse fullback, Billy Burk- halter and Sonny Wyatt ripped off huge chunks of yardage down to the Arkansas 31 in the ferocious drive. There, as the Razorbacks tight ened their defense, for more power stuff, Glass lofted a pass; to the end zone. Howton went up between Arkansas’ Buddy Sutton and Nor man Price and took the ball away from them for a touchdown. Wright Converts Bill Wright converted, and actu ally, that was all Rice needed. Arkansas finally carried a goal- ward drive all the way in the third quarter after Sophomore Larry Hogue, a third-string quarterback-, took charge of the offense. Hogue’s sneaks through the middle and off tackle accounted for most of the yardage as the Razorbacks went from the Owl 46 to the 4. Buddy Rogers burst through from there for a touchdown. George Thomas- son’s kick for point was no good. With less than four minutes left to play, Glass passed 30 yards to Howton on the Arkansas 11. Rice gave up tjic ball on downs at the 6. But, on the next play, Arkansas shifted from the T into a deep spread formation and Center Har old Stockton snapped the ball past Hogue and out of the end zone for an Owl safety. Arkansas drives ranging up to 77 yards reached the Rice 3, 8, 15 and 18 only to run out of fuel. Wyatt Sparks Owls Wyatt was the heart of the Owl running attack. He netted 116 yards on twenty-one carries. Glaus er pounded through the middle for 55. Buddy Rogers was Arkansas’ top ball carrier with 63 yards in sixteen tries, Four others garnered more than 40 apiece. If there was a bright spot for the Razorbacks it was the quarter back play of Hogue, who had play ed halfback for six games after failing to click at the signal-calling post in the season opener. His run ning from the split T was excep tional. He got 40 yards on five sneaks after entering the game in the third quarter. Errorless Play The big difference between the two teams was that Rice took ad vantage of its opportunities with errorless play, while Arkansas nul lified its off-and-on brilliance with costly miseries. Pass interceptions were costly to LAST TIMES TODAY “The Men” TUESDAY & WED. “Desert Hawk” Arkansas. The Owls latched onto three Razorback tosses, twice to halt marches that had penetrated the Rice 15. The Porkers connected on only six of nineteen passes for 78 yards, while the Owls ran the intercep tions back 82 yards. Glass Dumped The Owls completed six of seven aerials for 103 yards. They tried to throw more, but time and again the big Razorback linemen dumped Glass before he could spot a receiv er. The game was fought out in 40- degree temperature made more un comfortable by a 20-mile-an-hour south wind. TU 27, Baylor 20 Bobby Dillon, a one-eyed half back, returned a kickoff 34 yards in the fourth period to give the University of Texas Longhorns a face-saving 27-20 victory over the surprisingly tough Baylor Bears in a Southwest Conference thriller. Dillon, who jokes about his glass eye tucked in a kick by Baylor’s Larry Isbell and, behind fine block ing twisted through the entire Baptist team in the final five minutes of play. It was “Old One-Eye,” too, who broke up a desperate Baylor pass attack with less than three min utes to go by intercepting a mis fired Isbell aerial. But Leaping Larry dogged Texas, now overwhelmingly fa vored to win the Southwest Con ference title and the host bid to the Cotton Bowl, all afternoon with fancy passing that warmed up a crowd of 35,000 Armistice Day fans. Gridiron Sketch Baylor Texas First Downs ... 18 10 Rushing* yardage .... ...162 77 Passing yardage .... ...168 94 Passes attempted .... ... 26 13 Passes completed .... ... 14 7 Passes intercepted 1 3 Punts vv—.«•* ',5 . 1 Punting average 36.2 38.4 Fumbles lost ... 1 2 Yards penalized .... 30 30 Isbell was almost as dangerous as a runner as he combined his talents with those of halfbacks Jim Jeffrey and Buddy Parker and fullback Richard Parma in a battle royal with Texas quarterback Ben Tompkins and hard-charging full back Byron Townsend. - Showing fine impartiality, Texas scored a touchdown in every period. Tompkins accounted for two, one a four-yard pass to end Tom Stol- handske and the other on a quar terback sneak from the Baylor two behind guard Bud McFadin and Tackle Gene Vykukal. Reeder Recovers Fumble Center Hugh Reeder started the Texas point-making when he recov ered a fumble on the opening kick off and Townsend, the Longhorns’ money-runner, pushed across from the one yard line four plays later. Parker scored Baylor’s first touchdown on a two-yard plunge by the first period to end an 81- yard drive, and another in the third on a 14-yard pass from Isbell. 1'he crowd sensed an upset when Isbell tied up the game 20-20, late in the fourth with a pass to Har old Riley. But Dillon took the en suing kickoff and ran like a dough- foot in a strafing attack, and that was all for Baylor. Baylor Outplays TU Baylor outplayed Texas in every statistical department. The Baptist Bears totaled 18 first downs to 10 for the Longhorns. They netted 162 yards, rushing whereas Texas, even with Townsend hitting the line furiously, gained only 77. Isbell’s passing was good fpr 168 yards, while Tompkins totaled only 94. The Baylor line played Texas’ offensive to a standstill which was borne out by the statistics. Linebackers Frank Boystun and Gale Galloway had a fine day and tackle Ken Casner proved trouble some to the Longhorns while Cook played a spectacular first half, when he recovered two Texas fum bles. Parma Leads Rushers Parma lead the ground gainers, marking up a net grain of 74 yards on 16 carries, while Jeffrey paced off 30 yards in 10 tries. , Townsend was good for short yardage when he was needed, but the Baylor line blunted his at tempts and held him to a total of only 40 yards, the same yard age picked up by Longhorn half back Gib Dawson. The game-deciding runback by Dillon was made possible in large part by End Don M^asco, Daw son and McFadin, whose blocks en abled Dillon to breah aygy in the. clear at midfield. Menasco also broke up a Bay- Menasco also broke up Bay lor threat when he intercepted an Isbell pass at the opening of the fourth quarter. Only the gun ending the second period stopped what appeared to be a certain touchdown march for Bay|or on Isbell’s passes. The Bears, starting on their own 36, moved fast as Isbell hit Jeffrey, Riley and Boydstun, but time ran out in the period to stop the Baylor threat on the Texas 14.—Based on AP Report. —Beat Rice— Lippman Starts 18 l ard Jaunt ■ Glenn Lippman begins rounding right end for an 18 yard gain while a greater portion of the SMU line attempts to cut him short. Lippman played both offense and defense and made the final tackle of the game which A&M won, defeating SMU, 25-20. Cadet Pass Defense At Best With Three Interceptions (Continued from Page 1) But. Southern Methodist wasn’t playing its worst, .and especially Killer Kyle Rote, the Ponies’ candi date as All-American for the year. The Mustangs’ star rambled for 12,6 yards in 27 carries and scored two of the Ponies TDs. while at taining a punting* average of 52 yards for two boots. Rote Best Passer- Rote also turned in the best pass ing performance of the day as he completed five of six attempted aerials for 64 yards. He also caught three passes for 49 yax’ds. Pass slinger Fred Benners was the real thorn in the Cadets’ side with his accurate passing, complet ing 15 of 21 attempted aerials for 211 yards and one touchdown. But at this point it is well to give credit-where-credit is due as the Aggies defensive backfield showed up the best that it has all sgason, intercepting three of Ben- rievs’ tossfcs aw 'playing an inn pbrtant part in the Aggies’ goal line stands. McDonald, Shacffcr at Best Charley McDonald and Buddy Shacffcr were at their best play ing heads-up ball throughout the game, each receiving official credit for five unassisted tackles. Mc Donald also received credit for four- assisted tackles, Shaeffer fqr five, but it was McDonald, who stopped Rote cold on the Cadets’ one-yard line to stop SMU’s 2.0-down scor ing threat which failed to mater ialize in the second quarter. Shaeffer intercepted a Ponie aer ial as did Augie Saxe and Aggie quadruple-threat Yale Lary—punt er, runner, defensive back and pass er—intercepted the third of the Benners’ aerials caught by the Ca dets. Larry also setup the Farmers second score when he ran back Rote’s 38-yard punt, 64 yards to SMU’s 36 yard line. Lippman was also outstanding for the Cadets on defense as he not only played in the backfield but also on the line in the guard slot, helping “rush Benners.” It was also Lippman, who knocked H. N. Russell, Jr., out-of-bounds on the last play of the game which ended the 60 minute, touchdown- for-touchdown fray. Goal-Line Standouts On the line during the goal-line stands were previously mentioned Hillhouse, who is becoming a una nimous choice in the Southwest Conference as an all-American end, Bob Bates, Jim Fowler, Jimmy Flowers, Dorbandt Barton, W. T. Rush, Jack Little, and Alvin Lang ford. Little, Langford, Rush, and Barton worked together in smear ing Benners for a minus 28 yards during the game. After an exchange of the ball, SMU scored first with Rote sweep ing right end the final three yards for the counter. Nine plays covering 77 yards, most of which were traversed by Johnny Cham pion, were all that the Mustangs needed for the first six points, and SMU partisans settled back ex pecting the slaughter that seemed LAST DAY “TREASURE ISLAND” Technicolor Alvin Langford the the Langford is undoubtedly fastest rushing tackle in Southwest Conference, being able to run the 100-yard dash in 10.4. His 6’ 1” 200-pound frame was a big help in the weekend fray in which he was officially credited with two unassisted tackle and seven assists. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment WANTED f Student to act as Campus Representative to help develop student tours of a nationally known travel organization. Remuneration in the form of com missions and/or free travel to foreign countries. Students with successful record of campus activities preferred. Please write, stating qualifications and references to ... . Harold Martin, Director Student Tours of the Pacific 105 Berkeley Square Berkeley, Calif. to have just begun. The scoring had begun, but it wasn’t anyone’s slaughter. Taking the ball on their own 20 after Bill Sullivan’s kickoff had sailed into the end zone, A&M needed only three plays to get back in the ball game. Smith went through center for three, then Lippman crashed right guard for two, and on the next play,, Bruisin’ Bob was off on a 75 yard scamper with Tidwell plac ing the key block. SMU’s Charley Chambers follow ed Smith all the way to the goal Battalion SPORTS MON., NOV. 13, 1950 Page 3 line but could never succeed in getting near enough to do any dam age to Smith’s spectacular run. Darrow Hooper, who seemed to have a bad day, missed the try for extra point and the Cadets still trailed. (See LARY, Rage 4) Aggie Harriers Swamp NTS In Dual Match Rebounding after last week’s defeat to Arkansas, * the Aggie Cross Country team swamped North Texas last Friday afternoon, 19-44. Led by Aggie Julian Herring, last fall’s Southwest Conference cross country champ, the Maroon and White harriers swept seven of the first eight places in completely outclassing the Denton team. Don Edwards, the only Eagle to break into the A&M monopoly, crowded Herring all the way but was soundly whipped by 25 yards in the closing half mile, finishing a good second. In third place was John Garmany who was followed by teammate Jim McMahon. Charles Hudgins, Marshall Lazarine, and Alex Ortiz swept across the finish in a dead heat for fifth, some fifty yards be hind fourth place. Charles Gabriel brought up the rear for the Cadets in eighth still substantially ahead of North Tex as’ second man. It was apparent at the mile mark that the Aggies were headed for victory when all North Texas team, with the exception of Edwards, be gan dropping behind. 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