Cadets Receive Week’s
First Heavy Workout
Defense got a lot of the attention
yesterday in Aggie football camp
as Coach Paul Bryant sent the var
sity through its first rough work
out of the week before the Baylor
game Saturday.
More contact work is scheduled
for today as the Cadets try to
bounce back after the loss to TCU.
Pass defense came in for lots of
emphasis again Tuesday, since
Baylor’s aerial game has top-flight
operatives in quarterbacks Billy
Hooper and Bob Jones.
The Aggie air defense is now
first in the nation with an average
of 30.8 yards given up per game,
according to latest NCAA statis
tics.
After practice, Bryant said he
hoped the one-point loss to the
Frogs would just make the Aggies
play harder this week.
“I don’t think a fighting Aggie
would let a game like that get him
down. It ought to make our boys
give just that little more that they
are going to have to give if they
want to win,” Bryant said.
He’s still proud of the way they
fought back against TCU after
falling far behind, said Bryant,
“but now we’ve got to start realiz-
For Past Four Years
Ag-Be ar Games
Tops for Thrills
ing the importance of other quar
ters in other games.”
“I’m not satisfied until we beat
somebody,” Bryant said. “I’m not
one of these guys that are satis
fied with a close game.”
Yesterday, in Bryant’s own
words, the Aggies “tried to work
on defense.” “There’s no substi
tute for aggressiveness on defense,
we tried to rush the passer, some
thing we haven’t done in a game
all year.”
Although the stress was on de
fense, the Cadets also ran offen
sive- plays against a team of fresh
men. They finished with a work
out on field goals and extra points.
Meanwhile, on the other side of
the practice field, the Fish got
another long drilling from assist
ant coaches Elmer Smith, Lou Ka-
ribo, Tom Tipps, t Willie Zapalac,
Phil Cutchin and Jerry Claiborne.
The freshmen next play the Rice
Owlets Nov. 11 at Kyle field.
Kittens Flay
Huntsville,
League Leaders
Taking a record of three
wins and a tie with them,
A & M Consolidated junior
high school meets Huntsville
junior high tomorrow in
Huntsville.
Kickoff time is 4:30 p.m.
The Kittens blasted Brenham
junior high 18-0 last week in a
nondistrict game. Huntsville leads
the circuit with a 2-0 mark, and
the Kittens are second with a 1-0-1
record. Madisonville is in third
with a 1-2 slate. Navasota is in
the cellar after losing two and tie-
ing one.
Coach Horace Shaffer plans to
start the same lineup that opened
last week’s game. That includes
Bobby Ross and Kirby Jackson at
ends, Bennie Jackson and John
Beaty at tackles, Pete Rodriguez
and Royce Hickman at guards,
George Carroll at center, Edgar
Feldman at quarterback, Sidney
Greer and Kenneth Cooner at half
backs and Jim Wright at fullback.
Cocaptains for Consolidated will
be Feldman and Kirby Jackson.
Wednesday, October 20, 1954
THE BATTALION
Page 3
If Saturday’s A&M -Baylor
game follows the pattern of the
last four meetings of the old rivals,
fans should be gasping for breath
at the final gun.
Only nine points have separated
them since the 1949 game, and just
three points have been the differ
ence in the last three years. The
Aggies haven’t won since 1947.
* Larry Isbell put on a great pass
ing exhibition in 1951 to boost Bay
lor to a 21-21 tie on Kyle field. In
1952 at Waco fullback Don Kach-
flk, then a sophomore, scored three
touchdowns after the Cadets were
hailing 14-0, but Baylor won 21-20.
Smith Kicked Two
The extra point kick again was
the winning play last year when
Baylor won 14-13. Don Ellis com
pleted 11 of 19 passes, five of them
to Bennie Sinclair, but all-America
tackle James Ray Smith kicked
both extra points for Baylor.
Smith was named Associated
Press Lineman of the Week after
his performance against the Ags.
Both teams had gone into the game
unbeaten.
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Baylor won the 1950 game 27-20,
upending Bob Smith, Glen Lipp-
man, and company after a cub
stealing episode.
Kettler vs' Hooper
This year’s game has all the in
gredients that have made the last
four meetings «uch great games, f
The opposing quarterbacks, A&M’s '|
Elwood Kettler and Baylor’s Billy J
Hooper, currently are leading the I
conference in total offense and j
passing, although Hooper missed
nearly all of the Miami game. if
Kettler has run or passed on 109 "j
plays this season, gaining 506
yards, 218 passing and 288 run- |
ning. Hooper has gained 418 j
yards on 61 plays, and has complet- |
ed 23 of 42 passes for 393 yards I
to head the conference in that de
partment. He has gained only 25
yards on the ground.
Bears in Good Shape I
Baylor will be in nearly top Y
shape for the Aggies. Only player
definitely out is halfback L. G. j
Dupre. Soph quarterback Doyle |
Traylor, who has missed all of the
season with a shoulder injury, may
be ready. Guard Henry Ruther
ford, a starter until he suffered a
shoulder injury, will play.
The Bears apparently are not go
ing to take A&M’s poor won-lost
record seriously. Assistant coach
Bill Henderson, who scouted the
Aggies last week, told them, “They NS
have eliminated all the ‘soft nosed’
boys down there now, and they
have a good ball team, in fact, two
good teams. If the TCU game
had lasted five minutes longer,
A&M would have won.”
Kettler Bidn Get Raves
But Look at Him Go Now
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Staff
If A&M’s football fortunes rise
this fall, a lot of the credit will
go to quarterback Elwood Kettler,
and his severest critic will be the
first to tell you so.
Now 15th in the nation and first
in the Southwest conference in to
tal offense, Kettler scarcely re
sembles the same player that was
switched from halfback in spring
training.
Coach Paul Bryant will readily
tell you that.
Admittedly worried last spring
about finding a man to replace all-
SWC Don Ellis, Bryant put Kettler
at the man-under when spring
drills began. When the sessions
were over, Kettler clearly was the
top man, although there were se
rious doubts then about his pass
ing ability.
Kettler doesn’t throw the pretty
pass that Ellis and Cotton David
son (for example) threw last year.
But that doesn’t worry Bryant.
“Read the statistics,” he said. “I
don’t care how pi’etty it looks, just
so it’s our man he throws to.”
Kettler is only fifth in the SWC
in rushing and passing but first in
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Billy Hooper
Baylor Quarterback
21 Point Spree
Paces AAA
To 41 - 9 Win
Raymond Van Eaton paced
A AAA to a 41-9 victory over
Sqdn. 22 yesterday in upper
classmen basketball by scor
ing' 21 points for the victors.
Also, C AAA won over Sqn. 23,
31-14; Leggett won over Mitchell,
24-16; Sqn. 15 won over Sqn. 7, 17-
13.
In intramural tennis, B AAA
won over Sqn. 16, 2-1; Sqn. 4 won
over A QMC, 2-1; A CML won
over A Eng., 3-0 and Sqn. 17 won
over Sqn. 2, 2-1.
A last play pass from Skinmer
to Porter, good for 99 yards, put
Sqn. 20 in the scoring column
against B AAA, but they fell short
of victory, 13-6.
Other results in freshman intra
mural football were: Sqn. 12 over
Sqn. 19, 13-6; B Inf. over Sqn. 14,
18-0; and Sqn. 15 over C Inf. by
forfeit.
Freshmen qualifying for the finals
in intramural diving were Card, B
Inf.; Godfrey, A Chem.; Beasley,
Sqn. 5; Forrester, Sqn. 25; Sim
ons, Sqn. 9, and Smith, C AAA.
Upperclassmen qualifying for
the finals in intramural diving were
Broker, Law Hall; Lewis, Sqn. 6;
Jones, Sqn. 5; Hudson, Sqn. 17;
Moran, Sqn. 11 and Mitchell, A
Ord.
yards gained. A look at the fig
ures shows why, because he’s gain
ed nearly as much one way as the
other, pointing up the double threat
he represents.
On 76 running plays he has gain
ed 288 yards. He has passed 33
times, completed 13 of them for
only a .394 percentage, but each
completion has gone for an average
of nearly 17 yards. In short, he
connects in the clutch, as shown
in the Georgia game, when he
threw to Gene Stallings for the
only touchdown.
A&M has scored 48 points this
season—Kettler has made 30 of
them. Brygrit says his execution of
the important quarterback-option,
play “is improving all the time.”
Kettler al*o has solved one of
the problems that faced Bryant
when the sea«om opened—•«. ‘holler’
guy, one thgjt would provide the
spark Ellis gave out last yean “I
certainly would call him a leader,”
Bryant said. “We need more like
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out there.”
After Kettler played 60 minutes
against TCU and gained 126 yards
rushing and passing, Bryant said,
“I’ve met a lot of better players
than Kettler in my time, but none
with more heart.” Ask him what
the redhead’s biggest attribute is,
and Bryant thumps his heart. *
Six feet tall and 175 pounds,
Kettler isn’t at all big for a col
lege quarterback. At Brenham
high school, though, he got used
to playing a lot—he played every
minute of every game his senior
year.
Last year as a halfback, Kettler
played 345 minutes, ran for 139
yards on 36 carries, caught 10
passes for 105 yards, returned six
kickoffs for 122 yards and kicked
8 of 11 extra points.
He’s just a junior in eligibility,
so at least one of the Aggies’ foot
ball problems is solved for next
year.
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