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Tuesday, OctoHer 5, 1954
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Cadets Get Rest After 6-0
Win
Where to Now?
Ask Aggie Fans
By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
“Where do we go from here?” is the current puzzle
facing A&M’s scrappy varsity footballers today after Coach
Paul Bryant, pleased as punch over the 6-0 win over Georgia,
gave his thin squad a day off Monday.
The varsity will have little contact work this week as it
prepares for the University of Houston game in Houston Sat
urday night. Bryant said the first and second teams will
work on goal line defense and scoring punch today, then
knock off hard work for the rest of the week.
A&M came out of the Georgia game with no injuries to
tfce 31 man squad that made the trip. Bryant used 29 of
them.
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the season when they face the
Cougars. Halfback Charlie
Hall, who missed the first two
games, saw lots of action against
the Bulldogs.
Yesterday Bryant had a lot of
praise for the Aggie showing
“They displayed a lot of guts, and
I’m proud of them,” he said. “We
had a lot of boys that played well.
Stallings.continued his fine play at
end, and the whole line looked
good, particularly on defense.”
‘Sinclair Played Well’
“Sinclair played well on defense,
Schroeder and Winkler played
very fine at the tackles and Tate
adooked better.
Barrett made some good plays
for us in the clutch, and Kachtik
also played well.”
f Bryant said he was especially
pleased with the way the Cadets
tvon the game. “They won it the
hard way,” he said, inferring to the
times they drove deep into Geor
gia’s end of the field, failed to
score and still kept Coach Wally
Butts’ crew bottled up in their end.
“We need to work on our scor
ing punch,” Bryant said, after ver
bally patting the Cadets on the
back again for the play of the
defensive line, and the Ags’ pass
defense. He also said the tackling
of the defensive secondary needed
to be worked on.
Ags Rushed Passer
The best pass defense is rush
ing the passer, many coaches say,
and the Aggies excelled at it Sat
urday. And Bryant proudly point
ed out that in the last two games,
A&M opponents have averaged .7
yards (that’s right, 7/10 of ONE
yard) on punt returns.
It’s easy to see why, after view
ing movies of the Georgia game.
On a punt to the Bulldogs in the
fourth quarter, there were seven
white-shirted A&M players down-
field waiting for the safety man
to try a return. He didn’t.
The Aggies surely must be the
Southwest conference leaders in
this phase of play. They are of
ficially ahead in pass defense, with
an average of 20.4 yards surren
dered in their three games. Seven
of 23 passes have been completed
against A&M this season.
Saturday A&M had possession of
the ball on 70 plays to 59 for
Georgia. Only twice in 60 min
utes did the Cadets lift the gate
they clanged down at the midfield
stripe. On one of them, the Red-
shirts got to the 36, their deepest
penetration of the game, then
Jimmy Harper got trapped for a
big loss on an attempted pass.
Harper, called another Zeke
Bratkowski by many Georgians,
had a miserable afternoon. The
slim junior didn’t complete a pass
until the fourth quarter against
the 5-4-2 A&M defense. Don Kach
tik, who played one of his greatest
games, snared two of them.
Kachtik again was running like
the afternoon in 1952 against Bay
lor, when he scored three touch
downs in a 21-21 tie, and was a
great linebacker.
Georgia’s offense sputtered
against the Aggie defense for only
85 yards to the Farmers’ 277.
Good Day For Kettler
QuarteTback Elwood Kettler had
a fine day and wound up second
in the SWC in both total offense
and passing. He completed 6 of
8 for 79 yards Saturday and ran
for 39 more. Little Charlie Scott
brought the crowd up with a wig
gling 20 yai'd run on a keeper-
off right tackle behind crisp block
ing to the Georgia 5.
Kettler has gained 232 yards on
65 plays, a 3.6 average, and has
completed 9 of 21 passes for 138
yards, a 15.3 average. Soph half
back Don Watson, a swivel-hipped
speedster, has returned 4 kickoffs
for 94 yards, and soph Bobby Keith
has run back 3 for 62 yards.
Watson’s 53 yard punt return
through most of the Georgia team
Saturday was a real crowd pleas-
er. Watson fielded the ball on his
35, faked a handoff to Joe Schero
and cut for the left sideline. He
got three or four blocks to clear
him, and only fullback Bobby^
Clemens separated him from the
goal, but Clemens wasn’t fooled
by Watson’s sidestep and nailed
him at the 12.
Fish Work Hard
Yesterday, while the varsity got
their rest, the coaching staff work
ed until 6:30 with the freshmen,
who play the TCU frosh in Fort
Worth Wednesday night. After an (
intense drill on fundamentals, Bry
ant put six Fish teams through a
brief , scrimmage .session, their
last before this week’s game. There
were three scrimmages going on
at the same time.
Bryant said he was well pleased
with the Fish showing in the open
er with the University of Houston
freshmen, but added, “They’ve- got
a long way to go, and how much
football they really want to play
will determine how many games
they’ll win.”
The Fish came out of their open
er in good shape, Bryant said.
Game Summary
Here’s a summary of how the
game went Saturday:
The first time the Aggies got
the ball, they crunched from their
10 to the Geergia 24. Kettler
passed twice to Sinclair for a to
tal of 30 yards. On fourth and 15,
Gene Henderson’s field goal try
was wide.
Georgia had to kick, and Wat
son’s, bit of artful running on his
punt return set up the Cadets on
the Georgia 12. After three
ground plays missed fire, Kettler
tried a field goal from the 15,
the second play of the second per
iod, but it was too wide.
Later in the second quarter,
Kettler passed to Stallings, who
juggled the ball and saw Harper
steal it from him on the Georgia
34. Two plays later, Kachtik
plucked off Harper’s pass and
stepped 18 yards to the Georgia
30.
Here Kettler took the cover off
his throwing arm again, and two
plays later the Aggies scored the
game’s only touchdown. The first
pitch went to end Jack Pardee for
14 yards, then Kettler heaved to
Stallings, who took it away from
a Georgia player on the 9 and
drove into the end zone.
Kettler’s extra point kick was
wide. Kettler almost completed a
beauty to Pardee in the first quar
ter, just before Henderson’s un
successful kick. Pardee was reach
ing for the pass on the Georgia
goal line when Bulldog John Bell
leaned back and knocked it away.
In the third quarter, A&M made
its deepest unsuccessful penetra
tion, getting to the 3 after Kach-
tik’s 23 yard burst to the Geor
gia 48 was wasted. After an ex
change of punts, Scott got 30 yards
in two carries, including his 20
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AUSTIN, Oct. 5 — <A>) _ With
center Leighton Younger out for
the season and tackle Langford
Sneed sidelined for three weeks,
Texas started getting ready Mon
day for Saturday’s game with
Oklahoma.
Younger and Sneed were both
starters on the number two Long
horn team. Younger suffered a
dislocated shqulder in the Wash
ington State game, while Sneed
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Get New
After Win
WATCH THEIR DUST—Guard Sid Theriot (No. 65) and fullback Don Kachtik (No. 30)
flash the form that helped down Georgia’s surprised Bulldogs 6-0 last Saturday. It was
the first A&M win in three starts this season, and the Cadets will be going all-out for
their second victory Saturday night against the University of Houston. Seniors Theriot
and Kachtik both are two-year lettermen and had a big hand in Saturday’s victory.
-yarder, but a penalty followed by
a pass interception stopped the
drive.
In the last quarter, Kachtik in
tercepted a pass on the Ag 44, and
the well-conditioned Cadets drove
to the 19. Kettler called a field
goal there, but the snapback was
faulty, and he riever touched the
ball. ,
The game was played in sticky,
88 degree weather, and condition
was at a premium. To their cred
it, the Cadets, driven hard by Bry
ant after he said they weren’t in
condition for the season opener,
never faltered. Bryant used two
units interchangeably to combat
Georgia’s greater reserve strength,
and A&M’s fine physical condi
tion was evident.
Bryant was highly complimen
tary of the scouting job assistant
coaches Pat James and Elmer
Smith did for the Aggies. “I want
everyone to know of the superb
scouting job James and Smith did
for us,” Bryant said.
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injured his shoulder in practice.
Ed Piice said he might make
some changes in the starting Texas
backfield later this week, possi
bly replacing fullback Bill Long
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A&M
Georgia
First downs
16
5
Rushing yardage . . .
183
69
Passing yardage ... .
94
16
Passes attempted . . .
12
11
Passes completed . . .
7
2
Passes intercepted by
. 2
2
Punts
5
10
Punting average . . .
27.6
36.6
Fumbles lost
1
1
Yards penalized . . . .
85
25
A&M
Players
Left ^nds—McGowan, Pardee, Kennon.
Left Tackles—Schroeder, Brown, Wink-
Left Guards—Barrett, Tate.
Centers—Hale, Vick, Wolf.
Right Guards—Goehring, Theriot.
Right Tackles—Ohlendorf, W. D. Powell,
Johnson.
Right Ends—Sinclair, Stallings.
Quarterbacks—Ttettler, Scott, Henderson.
Left Halfbacks—Keith, Huddleston, Wat
son.
Right Halfbacks—Schero, Hall.
Fullbacks—Kachtik, Easley.
Moon Gets
1954 NL
Rookie Honor
Former A&M baseballer
Wally Moon was named the
National League’s Rookie of
the Year by The Sporting
Neiys, getting 126. votes to
eight for his nearest rival.
Moon, all-Southwest confer
ence centerfielder at A&M in
1950, hit .303 in the 1954 sea
son for the St. Louis Cardi
nals, got 193 hits and led the
club in stolen bases. He re
placed the veteran Enos (Coun
try) Slaughter, who was sold
to the Yankees the day before
the season opened.
In 1950, when the Aggies
finished second in the SWC to
NCAA-champion Texas, Moon, .
now 24, hit .321 in conference
play and .363 in season play.
He hit .296 in 1949, his sopho
more year.
A&M Consolidated ran through
new plays Monday in a light rain
as the Tigers prepared for Friday
night’s home game with potent
Magnolia, after a 14-0 win over
Hempstead last. Friday.
The game with the Bulldogs,
rated tops in their region, closes
out the Tiger’s non-district sched
ule^
CHS gained 265 yards rushing
Friday, the best mark of the Ti
ger season, and became the first
team to score against Hempstead
this year.
Center Norman Floeck set up
the first score, recovering a fum
ble on the Bobcat 1 V 1 in the second
quarter. Tommy Barker scored
on a center plunge from the 5 on
fourth down, and quarterback J.
B. Carroll converted.
Ag Harriers
Take Opener
From UT, Tech
A&M’s cross-country team
served notice on the rest of
the Southwest conference
that it is going to be hard to
keep it from defending its
conference title.
The Cadets Friday afternoon
scored their most lopsided win in
the history of the sport, placing
eight men in the first 10 scorers
and defeating Texas and Texas
Tech. A&M scored 20 points to 48
for Texas and 68 for Tech.
Verlon Westmoreland finished
first over the 2.6 mile course, cov
ering the distance in 12:15.2. Ino-
censio Cantu of Texas, the Steer’s
top runner last year, finished sec
ond. The only other non-Aggie
in the first 10 was Robert Johnson
of Tech, who finished sixth.
Edwin Blake and Bob Boles of
A&M were third and fourth, and
Robert Hooper, Fidel Rul and Carl
Wilmsen finished ahead of the sec
ond UT runner. ^
The Cadets meet Oklahoma Fri
day in a dual match at Norman,
then face Oklahoma A&M at Still
water Saturday.
Late in the period, Bobcat quar-
terback Harold Stephens completed
4 pajsses for 45 yards and led his
team! to the CHS 8 before the Ti
gers {halted the drive with 46 sec
onds? left in the half.
In the third quarter, guard Man
uel Garcia covered another Hemp
stead fumble on their 46 and set
up the last score. Halfback Travis
Englebrecht raced the last 33
yard§, with a pitchout and Carroll
converted again.
Englebrecht was the leading
ground gainer, getting 111 yards
in 14 carries. Barker gained 88
in 15, and Bobby Joe Wade ran
for 55 in 14 trips.
Statistics
A&M Hempstead
First Downs
Rushing Yardage
Passing Yardage
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Passes Intercepted
Punts, No.
Punting Average
Fumbles Lost
Yards Penalized
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