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Tuesday, September 30, 1952 THE BATTALION Page 3 TD Against O-Ags Is Biggest Thrill—Kachtik Don Kachtik, 6 foot, 190 pound Sophomore fullback ha£ added a lot of power to the Aggie back- field this year. He is an Animal Husbandry major from Rio Hondo Texas where he was an All South Texas back. TODAY thru THURSDAY —Feature Starts—• 1:10 - 2:56 - 4:42 - 6:28 8:14 - 10:00 ^ROGERS liTBPl liiC -rBream Boat News — Tom & Jerry Cartoon PA L A CE Bryan 2'Si}79 LAST DAY “Island of Desire” WED. thru SATURDAY SUSAN CABOT-victor jory A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE QUEEN LAST DAY 5t’s A Big Country* "AvEoTthru THURSDAY Last year as a Freshman, Kach tik led the Fish team in scoring with 24 points, and scored the first touchdown of the season against Blinn College. He also led the team in rushing with an aver age of almost 11 yards per carry. Kachtik said he decided on A&M because he wanted to study Animal Husbandry and he liked the school spirit. He added the spirit of the Twelfth Man made the team feel much better, winning or losing. This year, playing on the Var sity, he has alternated at the full back position with Connie Ma- gouirk, and has shown fine drive and spirit. Kachtik said his biggest thrill so far was his winning touchdown against Oklahoma A&M Saturday night. But he added that to win games would be thrill enough for - (See KACHTIK, Page 4) TODAY thru WEDNESDAY ^FRiscBjUmNGjuivX YVONNE VMttj fiumiike ST0RY\ to 'romprnrT mn»nnnnimnin>iinnnnnmnnniimfnil nnnnnrmilllimilllllllllr SIBNET BIACKMER ncutt eimh itumtHits iTiuicim uuSSinin m“iTSfita.iFlBELlTY-V06yEroi,.i ,I! 'I?" 1 'KIABNER BROS. CIRCLE PHONE 4-1250 TONIGHT & WEDNESDAY Children Under 12 Admitted Free When Accompanied By An Adult. HARD TACKLING—Halfback Joe Schero of the Cadets brings down Green of the Oklahoma Aggies, after a nine yard gain early in the third quarter of Saturday night’s game in the Cotton Bowl. Schero, a sophomore, is one of the starting defensive backs which kept the Cowpokes from breaking into the clear. O-Ags Better Team Than UH—Schero —Also— THE MOST LUSCIOUS MAGAZINE GIRL K OF ALL \TIME/ M •ntefy . . . . JOHN F0R5TTHE • JOAN CAMDEN Betty GM x Starring ^ JOAN CAULFIELD ROBERT CUMMINGS ELSA LANCHESTER A COtUMSIA PICTURE By BILL SAUER Battalion Sports Writer “Oklahoma A&M”, commented Joe Schero this morning, “definite ly had a better team than the U. of H., but I don’t think we played as good a game against them, since the team a whole made more mistakes. “Oklahoma A&M had a very strong defensive line which gave Ray Graves very little time to get set,” added Schero. “I think the . Cowpokes were really fired up, and along with their defensive line and our cost ly fumbles, it made a close^game.” “The reason the team has done better than most people expected, I think,” concluded Schero, “is that most of us are sopho mores and juniors, and were all playing hard and always hustling in order to beat out the next man for the starting assignment.” Not Over Confident “We don’t have the aptness to become over confident when we play since most of us are playing first string varsity ball for the first time.” “Coach Faircloth, the assistant backfield coach, scouted Kentucky last week and he should give us a hint of what to expect Saturday night,” Schero said. “Kentucky, like the Aggies lost their main team last year and are fielding a young aggressive team this year,” Schero remarked. “Al most everyone remembers “Babe” Parelli, the All-American quarter back, the Wildcats lost to gradua tion,” he added. Schero is 19 years old, a sopho more who calls San Antonio his home town. An architect major, Schero was an All State end on the Brackenridge High School team and won his freshman letter- ter as defensive end last year. In the two games played, Schero is the leading punt returner in the SWC, with a 21.5 average. ’ “From here on we can’t afford to make any more mistakes,” ad mitted Schero, “our first confer ence game is three weeks off, and we should really get polished up for these next two games.” Aggies Squeeze By Hard One In Final Minutes of Play By ED HOLDER Battalion Sports Editor “Our boys played a hard game. They had to if they won,” said Ray George just after his Aggies squeezed by the Oklahoma A&M Cowpokes Saturday night 14-7. “We made a few mistakes,” he continued, “but when you play a team as good as they have, and you get hit as hard as they were T hitting, you are bound to make a few mistakes.” Coach George was refering to the way the game could have gone either way until the last quarter when Hub Scott, defensive half back for the Aggies, pulled in a Cowpoke pass on his own 17 yard line, and carried it back to the 44. This set up the final cfrive as the Maroon and White drove and possed for four first downs and the winning touchdown. First Score Early Connie Magouirk, Aggie full back, tore through center for the first score of the game early in the first quarter. Don Ellis, left halfback, cross ed on the play before, but the Farmers were called back and penalized five yards for offsides. Hooper converted and kicked off. Oklahoma passed but it was incomplete. They were penalized 15 yards for illegal use of hands, then when Don Barbers, Cowpoke quarterback, attempted a hand-off, he was hit hard by Jack Little, All-America tackle, and end Wal ter Hill, and fumbled on his own 8 where Charlie Saxe recovered. Magouirk tried to bull his way up the middle and lost the ball to the Cowpokes on their 7. Oklahoma then started their most fierce drive of the game and didn’t stop till they crossed the goal 93 yards later. Stout made the score, and Davis converted to make the score 7-7. The play was defensive for both teams the rest of the game till about mid-way in the fourth quar ter when Scott made his intercep tion. The ball was tipped up by Joe Boring and Joe Schero as they de fended a pass receiver, and Scott shot by to take it to his own 44. Ray Graves, Aggie Quarterback, shot around right end for 9 yards, and Don Kactik, fullback, bulldoz ed over the middle for a first down. Jerry Crossman, Aggie end, took a pass from Graves on the 28 for another first down. Ellis went through the center for 3, and Haas hit the middle for another 4. Kachtik picked up 2 at left guard, and then took the ball through for the fourth first down of the 56 yard drive. It was Kashtik all the way on three tries, the first picking up 2, the second getting 1, and the third was off right guard for the winning score. Hooper’s kick was good, to set the score at 14-7. The Aggies held the Cowpokes for four downs after the kickoff, and took over with less than two minutes left in the game. Haas hit left tackle for 2, and Ellis got 5 at right guard. Haas hit again for a first down and Graves lost 3 on a keep play. Right halfback Haas got 4 around left end as the game ended Aggies 14, Cowpokes 7. “Lucky to be Alive” “We’x-e lucky to get out of that one alive,” said Paul McMurtry, head line coach of the Maroon and White. In the dressing room of the Cotton Bowl just after the game, McMurtry added, “They had a good team. There isn’t any doubt about that. I’m just glad it’s all over, and we won.” The Aggies meet Kentucky, one of the potential powers in the na tion next Saturday on Kyle Field. This will be their first home game, and will be at 8 p. m. Bonnen And Arnold Star In Tiger Win The A&M Consolidated Tigers kept their record clean by down ing the Navasota Rattlers, 32-13 on Tiger Field Fi-iday night. Fred Anderson, Tiger quarter back, was very deadly with his passing as he completed six out of seven for 61 yards, keeping the Rattler defense of balance. The leading scorer in the confei - - ence, David Bonnen, Tiger full back scored in the first period on a one yard buck thx*ough the line. Tiger halfback, Willie Axmold, scored three times, going over from the two yax’d line in the second pexdod, scampering 32 yards for the second in the third quarter and ex’ossing the double sti’ipes from four yax-ds out in the final pex-iod. Arnold cax-ried 11 times fox- 136 yards averaging over 12 yaxds per carry. Bobby Joe Wade, Tiger halfback scox’ed the other Consolidated TD in the thix-d quax-ter on a 29 yax-d end x-un. Both of the Tigex-s extra points A&M SWC Offense Leader; Second In Rushing Defense A&M Soccer Club To Hold Meeting The A&M Soccer Club will meet tomorrow night at 7:30 in room 127 of the Academic Building for their first or ganizational gathering of the year. Charx’o Caxdenas, captain of the club, has ui-ged all in- tex-ested Aggies to attend the meeting. Plans for future games will be discussed. AGGIES!! We Have Food to Suit Your Taste Excellent Service WEHRMAN’S CAFE Highway 21 West in Bryan City Limits 1009 W. 25th STREET Across the Highway From Bryan Tractor & Supply Co. By GUS BECKER Associate Sports Editor Texas A&M is still the SWC’s leading offensive team, Southwest Confei’ence football statistics x - e- vealed. The Aggies have rolled up 609 yaxds on 133 plays for an aver age of 4.5 yaxds per play. In the runner-up spot is Texas University with 602 yards on 146 plays for a 4.1 yax’ds avexage per Play. The Aggies have also x’acked up 35 fix’st downs to the Longhorns 33 and ax - e the x’ushing leadex - s almost 100 yax’ds ahead of the Steex's with 419 yax-ds to 328 yax-ds. Although the Cadets have the best passing pex’centage of the conference teams with .552, they ax-e last among the SWU elevens in passing yaxdage gained. Ax-kan- sas leads in this depax-tment with 311 yaxds through the air, while the Aggies have 190. Second in Rushing Defense According to the statistics, the Aggies have the second best x-ush- ing defense in the confex-ence, al lowing only 128 yards on the ground to their opponents. Ray Graves of the Aggies drop ped fi-om third to fourth among the SWC leading ball cax-riers with 101 yax-ds on 23 carries for 4.4 yaxds per carx-y average. Another Aggie back, Ray Haas jumped up among the leaders, placing behind Graves with 84 yax-ds on 22 caxries for a 3.8 average. The other halfback, Don Ellis is one of the top 10 caxriers, plac ing eighth with 80 yax’ds on 22 carx’ies for a 3.6 avexage. Graves Third Gx-aves is also thix-d in. the pass ing department, with 15 comple tions out of 27 attempts for 182 yards and a .555 pex’centage. In total offense, Gx-aves is thix-d with 283 yax-ds on 50 plays for a 5.7 yaxds per play average. Roy Dollar moved up two places among the confex-ence punters, jumping from fifth to third, just sixth tenths of a yard behixxd sec- oxxd place Bob Raley of Texas. Dollax-, has punted eight times for a total of 21 yards for a 40.1 yax-ds average. Leadixxg the SWC ixx punt re turns xs Joe Schero of the Cadets. Schero has returned two punts for 43 yards for a 21.5 yard avex-- age. Joe Boring of the Aggies is the thix-d leading punt returner in the SWC with thx-ee puxxts x-etux’n- ed for 44 yards and 14.7 avex-age. Haas Among Leaders In the pass x-eceiving depax-t- ment, Haas is among the leadex's, with three passes caught for 66 yaxds and a 22 yaxds per pass average. A three way tie has developed among the confex-ence place kick- ex-s, with Darrow Hoopex-, C. O. Brocato, and Hub Ingx-aham all having five points apiece. Hooper is also fifth among the SWC leeading scoxex-s with 11 points. Top two pass intex-ceptors in the confex-ence ax-e Aggies Hex-- bex-t Scott and Schex-o. Scott is in the number one spot with two in- tex-ceptions for 34 yards and a 17 yax-d avex-age. Schex-o has two intex-ceptions fox- 24 yax-ds and a 12 yax-d average, while Box-ing has one interception for 15 yax-ds good for fith place. Ellis is the leading kick-off x-e- turrier with two retux-ns for 72 yax-ds for a 36 yax-d avex-age. were booted by Bobby Carter. Next week the Tigex-s travel to Milano for their conferexxce open- ex-. Game- At A Glaxxce Tigers Rattlers 13 Fix-st Downs 11 299 Yds. Gain Rush 263 61 Yds Gain Pass 24 15 Yds Lost 4 345 Net Ydage Gain 283 6 out of 7 Passes Comp 1 out of 3 0 Passes Intex-c By 0 4 for 145 Punts 3 fox- 42 36 Punting Av 14 0 Own Punts Blocked 0 0 for 0 Punts Returned 3 for 42 4 for 30 Penalties 7 for 65 3 Fumbles 5 Longhorn Linemen Out Run Backfield AUSTIN, Sept. 29 — (A*) — The Texas Longhorns went thx-pugh a light workout today that featux-ed a x-elay between liixemen and backs. The linemen outran the backs by about three yax-ds. Junior High Football This year’s junior high football team at A&M Consolidated will be coached by Mx-. Horace Schaffer. Coach Schaffex-’s team will be considex-ably lighter thaxr usual this year due to the fact that the ninth gx-adex-s are on. the Vax-sity. All the boys will be in either the sevexxth or eighth gx-ade. Thex-e are 23 boys out for the squad. They px-actice evex-y day after school on the Tiger field. Eugene Rush - North Gate — If you gotta go you might as well go first class Life Insurance College Station Pioneer Pacemasters w Covering the Southwest at 270 Miles Per Hour! Now, winging their way across the Southwest at express speeds...Pioneer’s powerful Pacemasters get you to your destination... 100 miles an hour faster than the reliable DC-3! Far faster flight times, far greater comfort and convenience, greatly Increased pleasure ... all are yours when you fly PIONEER PACEMASTERS!' 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