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Tuesday, October 12, 1954 THE BATTALION Page 3 Tigers Readying for Katy A&M1 Consolidated’s battered Tigers went through a stiff scrim- ©iage session Monday afternoon, and Coach Jim Bevans scheduled more of the same to ready CHS i though held to a 0-0 tie by Hemp- for the district opener here with stead, whom CHS has beaten. Katy Katy Friday night. will be Consolidated’s third straight Katy is unscored on this season, I undefeated opponent and the fifth Football Game (Continued from Page 1) and began sending his players to the dressing room. Yesterday Bryant said two or three Aggies suffered the usual bumps and bruises, then added, “I won’t say anybody is out for the TCU game, although two or three might like to say they’re hurt bad inough to miss it.” Asked about the Aggie players }n the bench standing throughout the last half, Bryant said, “I didn’t notice anything about it—two or three others asked me about that. We didn’t ask them to stand, and I think it’s a good sign they did— we played better in the second half.” “I’m proud they did it— glad my kids were so interested,” he also said. Bryant, asked about A&M’s best players, immediately said, “Ket- tler—the same player who has pleased us the most in every other game.” He said fullback Don Kachtik showed “pretty good” and jointed out he played on 39 offen- :>ive and 54 defensive plays. Guard Sid Theriot played a “fine game,” said Bryant and he also praised tackles Norb Ohlendorf, Larry Winkler and Bill Schroeder, r ' ends Gene Stallings and Jack Pardee, quarterbacks Charlie Scott and Gene Henderson and halfback Joe Schero. After the varsity worked out for about one and a half hours in sweat suits, Bryant said he had made several position changes but didn’t want them disclosed. The Aggies worked on defending TCU plays. Guard Marvin Tate, who was hurt on the opening kickoff Sat urday but came back in, and Kach tik didn’t practice. The freshmen had a long work out yesterday as they readied for Thursday night’s game in Waco with the Baylor Cubs. Saturday night Kettler ran 16 times for 113 yards and completed two of seven passes for 35 yards, in the clutch. His total offense mark now is 380 yards gained on 88 plays. He has gained 207 yards on 60 carries and has completed 11 of 28 passes for 173 yards. Houston could return only two of the four A&M punts, and got just nine yards on those. A&M still leads the conference in pass' de fense, giving up 12 completions in 31 tries for 82 yards, a 20.5 aver age per game. Houston completed five of nine for 21 yards. Each team used only 29 players. The scoring went like this : Houston used 21 of the 37 plays in the second quarter with a 73 yard drive which netted six of their 15 first downs. Led by quar terback Jimmy Dickey, who drove the Ags crazy with his expert op tion plays, Houston marched to the 8 and had fourth down. Then Dickey rolled out to the right and passed to the left to end Ronnie Emberg for the score. Guard Verle Cray kicked the extra point. Three plays after the kickoff, Scott got loose at right end, out ran all but two Cougars and had a blocker with him. The blocker ; got one and made the other hesi tate, but Scott fell on the Cougar 24 as he tried to cut. Richard Vick then missed a field goal’ with the line of scrimmage the 17. The Cadets took the second half kickoff and went 62 yards to tie the game. Kettler passed 33 yards to Sinclair to the 2, then sneaked over between center Lloyd Hale and Guard Ray Barrett for the score. He also kicked the ex tra point, his first of the year. In the fourth period, Houston drove their 34 to the Aggie 11, stalled, and Cray booted the win ning field goal on fourth down from an angle. Football Talk Main Topic At ’39 Reunion Football talk flowed freely at the Shamrock hotel when over 500 people honored the 1939 national champion Aggie football team Saturday. Homer Norton, coach of the un beaten squad, said, “I can still see them as if it were yesterday,” and present coach Paul Bryant said, “I saw them play Tulane in the Sugar Bowl, and it was one of the greatest teams I’ve ever witness ed.” The ’39 team, which included two all-Americas, went unbeaten through a 10-game schedule and defeated Tulane 14-13 in the Sugar Bowl. It gave up only 10 points in the regular season. Tackle Jim Boyd, now a Baptist minister, and fullback John Kim brough were the all-Americas. Boyd and Cotton Price, who played quarterback, were team co-cap tains. Another co-captain, end Herbie Smith, was killed in World War II along with two other team mem bers, Dorace Moser and Cotton Williams. The luncheon guests stood for a moment of silence in tribute to the three players and Harry Faulkner, an assistant coach, now deceased. Speakers included- Norton, Bry ant, Boyd, Price, President David H. Morgan, Gen. A. D. Bruce, pres ident of the University of Hous ton and a former A&M student, Houston coach Clyde Lee, who played under Norton at Centenary, Charlie DeWare, the luncheon’s general chairman and a freshman coach at A&M in 1939, Marty Ka- row, backfield coach, Bill James, line coach, Manning Smith, assis tant backfield coach, and Lil Dim- mitt, trainer. Intramurals Have Heavy Schedule • Football, ; horseshoes, basketball," tennis and swimming all share the spotlight in intramural competition today. Teaip basketball and team tennis will be played by the upperclass men, while football and horseshoes will be played by the freshmen. Upperclassmen and freshmen will vie for the best qualifying times in the 100-foot backstroke, to be unreeled tonight at the P. L. Downs jr. natatorium. Swimming will start at 7:30 and the other sports will begin at 5:10 p.m. straight home game for the Ti gers. Led by halfback Johnny Ol- brych, Magnolia beat Consolidated 38-7 Friday night. The 155-pound Olbrych scored four touchdowns for the Bulldogs, and gathered in a total of 247 yards rushing in 18 carries, for an average of 13 yards a try. Tommy Barker was the leading ground gainer for CHS, with 76 yards in 6 carries, for a 12.7 aver age. Not satisfied with a 13-7 lead at half time, Magnolia scored four more times in the final half. Magnolia scored first when Ol brych broke through the middle of the Tiger line and ran 52 yards for a touchdown. The try for the extra point was low, and Mag nolia had a 6-0 margin with four minutes left in the first quarter. Just 50 seconds later, Olbrych bounded back into the end zone, on a 25-yard sprint. Bobby Parker made the point try, and the score stood at 13-0. This drive started with Bobby Seal’s recovery on a Consolidated fumble on the Tiger 43. CHS got their lone score with 55 seconds left in the half, when J. B. Carroll’s 11-yard pass con nected with Travis Engelbrecht in the end zone. Carroll booted the extra point. A 57-yard run by Barker put the Tigers in position for the score. M]agnolia picked up two more touchdowns in the final minutes of the third quarter. Olbrych, again, romped 32 yards to cap a 79-yard drive to Consoli dated’s goal four minutes before the end of the quarter. Parker converted. A pass from Gerald Applegate to Buddy Dial covered 60 yards for the next Bulldog score. A fumbled snap-back halted the ex tra poiqt try. With one minute, 23 seconds left to play Olbrych ended his scoring for the night with a six yard drive for a touchdown. The Tiger line reached for the conversion try, blocking it. With only 18 seconds left in the game, Seals heaved a 29-yard pass to Dial in the Tiger end zone, fin ishing the game and the Tigers. Another fumble prevented the extra point, and the game ended 38-Tr ITTLER AGAIN—Aggie quarterback Elwood Kettler picks up four yards first down bn the Houston 36 yard line in the first quarter of Saturday’s game. Aggie Harriers Split In Oklahoma Contests A&M’s cross-country team, de fending Southwest conference champs, split a “double header” in Oklahoma over the weekend, de feating Oklahoma and losing to Oklahoma A&M. The Cadets downed OU 14-24 Friday in Norman and lost to the O-Aggies 26-10 Saturday in Still water. They now have won three out of four meets—the win over Texas and Texas Tech is a tri angular meet counting as two vic tories. Verlon Westmoreland ran the three mile OU course in 15:47 to finish first for the second straight time. A&M also took the next four places, with Bill Cocke, Bob Boles, TCU Sends Back Football Tickets Additional reserve seat tickets for Saturday’s TCU-A&M game were received here Monday and are now on sale, said Pat Dial, busi ness manager of athletics. Dial said 400 to 500 tickets were returned from Fort Worth. The seats are around the 20-yard line high on the west side of the sta dium and cost $3.25. Ed Blake and Bob Hooper finish ing in that order. Satui’day, Oklahoma A&M tak ing the first four places, with the Cadets finishing in the same oi’der as Friday. Sture Lundquist, the Stillwater team’s great Olympic runner, was first. A&M meets Texas in a dual match in Austin at 4 p.m. Friday. TODAY & WEDNESDAY SIOUX UPRISING a'* ^/echnicofor A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Wehrman’s Cafe HOME COOKED FOODS 1009 West 25th St. BRYAN TODAY ONLY Karl Malden — Color ‘PHANTOM OF RUE MORGUE’ Plus — John Hodiak “DRAGONFLY SQUADRON” — WED. - THUR. - FRI. — “NAGUHTY NEW ORLEANS” NOTICE! 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