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THE BATTALION Page 3
Aggies Aren’t Ready
To Quit Yet-Bryant
Take it from Head Coach Paul .to Arkansas.
Bryant—the Aggies aren’t ready Asked about the team’s mental
to call it quits after the 7-14 loss | attitude after the heartbreaker of
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PORT
H O R T
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By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
Elwood Kettler continued to show last week why he is
one of the most prominent candidates for all-conference
quarterback selection, even though he didn’t have a particu
larly good night statistic-wise.
Kettler didn’t throw a pass all night, but the way the
Aggie backs were picking up yardage on the ground, (thanks
to a great performance by the line) he didn’t need to. The
burr-headed senior carried the ball 19 times, more than any
other Cadet, and gained 69 yards. (Billy Huddleston got 83
yards in 15 and wasn’t stopped for a loss all night, Richard
Vick had a net figure of 80 in 16 and lost only a yard.)
Kettler Leads Again
Still leading the conference in total offense despite the
fact he isn’t a top-flight passer, Kettler is standing up to the
likes of more-publicized Duane In sharp contrast, Kettler has
Nutt and Billy Hooper. 374 by ground, 282 by air. Nutt,
Nutt and Hooper, of course, are second in total offense, has 557
far ahead of Kettler in the pass- through the air, Hooper 578.
ing department. Nutt has com
pleted 42 of 65 for 557 yards and
five touchdowns, Hooper has 36
of 65 for 578 yards and six touch-
The guys that can throw that
long pass naturally are going to
attract more attention. But it
seems that a guy like Kettler, who
downs. Kettler’s record is 19 of does ag good or better a job at
4o p f . 0 . r 282 . yards ; . ballhandling and play calling as
, „ Wait , * T ’. 1 ? k at t , f- anybody in the SWC, plus being
a better runner, should get
Kettler is fourth in rushing, while
Hooper and Nutt are at the bot- much'consid^ratbn.
tom, and we mean bottom. Hoop
er has run for 16 yards in seven
End to Center to Fullback
runner,
iidei’atior
Especially when he’s been lead-
games, Nutt has picked up 44 in total offense for most of
yards on the ground in five games, the season now.
Problem At Fort Worth
The boys in the press box at the Southwest conference basketball
Baylor-TCU game last Saturday teams are well along in their first
had a problem on their hands when week of official practice, with
Bear Del Shofner caught a Frog SMU and TCU generally consid-
fumble and ran 38 yards for the ered the best bets for the title,
winning touchdown. Pony coach Doc'Hayes has six
The official statistician couldn’t returning lettermen and several
figure out where to put the 38 sophs that might really open a
yards on Baylor’s figures. After few eyes. The returning letter-
a conference, it w r ent down as a ment ai-e Art Barnes, Ronnie Mor-
“no intercepted pass return”— ris, Joel Krog, Carl Scharffenbur-
whatever that means. . . ger, Tom Miller and Bob Clayton.
O’Neal To Get Lot of Attention
TCU’s soph center, Richard ing guard spots. They are Buddy
O’Neal will be getting a lot of Brumley, Tommy Hill, Bill Estill,
notice after a great freshman year’. Vergil Baker and J. Bryan Kilpat-
The 6-7 product of Fort Worth rick, a 1951 letterman back from
Poly scored 313 points in 12 games, the army.
including 37 one night against the The main pvoblem at Rice 5s re _
Baylor Cubs. Frog coach Buster placing Gcne Schwinger and Don
Brannon xs reported counting on Lancc _ This duo scored lj030 of
O’Neal as his starting center, re- the 0wIs . 1)999 points in 28 games
placing Hank Ohlen. last aeason _ The 0wls start out
Fonvards px-obably will be cap- „ , .
Iain Ray Warren, 6-6, and Charles Wlth one of the to P P airs of S uards
White or Sonny Lampkin. Five conference in Monte Rob-
lettermen will battle for the stall- icheaux and Bobby Brashear.
Saturday night, Biyant said, “It’s
just a question of whether we want
to get ready and try to play a
good game against SMU, or throw
in the sponge. I don’t think our
kids are ready to quit yet—I know
I’m not.”
We can’t go areund all week
feeling sorry for oui-selves. We ex
pect to play them a good game,
we’ve just got to concentx-ate now
on getting ready,” Bx-yant said.
“Let’s not talk about Arkansas,
we’ve got to get prepared for
SMU.”
Bryant said he had nothing to
say about the penalties called on
Don Watson’s 84-yard punt return
in the final minute of the Arkansas
game.
The Aggies got an idea frem as
sistant coach Jerry Claiborne of
the job that’s in store for them
when they meet the Ponies Satur
day afternoon. Claiborne told them
SMU is the best balanced team he
has seen and is the best the Ag
gies have faced.
SMU now leads the conference
in both offense and defense The
Ponies have averaged 340.6 yai’ds
per game on offense and have giv
en up an average of 228.2 yaixte
per game.
Against Texas last week, quain
ter back Duane Nutt completed 13
of 17 passes for 173 yards. He’s
second in the conference in both
passing and total offense.
The? trio of Hal O’Brien, Frank
Eidom and Don Mcllhcnny gives
the Ponies one of the most explo
sive backfield combinations in this
part of the country. SMU has to
beat the Aggies to stay in conten
tion for the conference title, and
Saturday’s game also climaxes the
SMU homecoming weekend.
Yesterday the playei’s that saw
most of the action against Arkan
sas worked out in sweat suits on
defense against SMU plays and
also reviewed signals. They ap-
Unheralded Vick
Surprise Package
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Staff
A lineman’s dream of carrying the ball came true for
Richard Vick last Saturday against Arkansas, and he showed
his appreciation by carrying the ball 16 times for 80 yards.
“It was the biggest thrill of my life,” said Vick, “be
cause I’ve always wanted to play in the backfield. Yes, I
was real jerky before the game.”
Vick moved off the bench last week and helped keep
A&M’s running attack going against an Arkansas team that
is rated fourth in the nation. For his performance, he was
nominate for the Associated Press’ Back of the Week.
Vick was shifted from third string center to fullback
a week before the Baylor game, but didn’t play against the
Bears. Coach Paul Bryaxxt didn’t
Ag Basketball Teams
Preparing for Season
feel he was ready. The move was
suggested by assistant coach Willie
Zapalac to add depth to the full
back position in case Don Kachtik
got hurt.
‘He’ll Play’
“When I suggested the move to
Vick, and saw the gleam come into
his eyes,” said Biyant, “I knew he
was all for it. Kachtik is still
our regular fullback.” Vick ? “He
will play.”
The 21-yeai’-old senior broke up
Arkansas’ opening touchdown drive
by intercepting a pass on the Ag-
t| gie 15, and from then on he was
strictly poison to the Poxkers. He
did his best running in the fourth
quarter, hurling his 6 foot-1, 185-
pound frame over Axkansas tack-
lers for 43 yards on 7 Cannes.
Just Another Change
For Vick it was just another in
a long line of changes sj^ice his
football career began at Beaumont
high school. He was a quartex-back
on the Beaumont team his fresh
man and sophomox-e yeai-s, and was
switched to halfback his hist two
years. On the Aggie Fish team
he was moved to defensive end and
played that role on the 1952 and
1953 vai'sity.
In spring training this year Vick
was switched to center, where he
x'emained until the past two weeks.
“That Henxy Moore of Ai-kansas
is as good a runner as I’ve ever
seen—he’s really tough to stop,”
said Vick, commenting on the Ra-
zoi’back game.
He has only three games left to
play for A&M, and is seeking his
first varsity letter.
“I think we can win all thx*ee
games if we play the brand of ball
we did against Axkansas—with a
few breaks we’d have won that
one,” Vick said.
He was an all-district selection
in high school, and earned three
football letters. He also got one
letter each in basketball and track.
A&M’s varsity and freshman
basketball teams enter their third
day of practice today, with the
Cadets returning with only two
lettermen and the Fish starting
work with a 24-man squad.
The freshmen and the varsity
will play an intei'squad game Nov.
29. The varsity opens its season
Dec. 2 with University of Houston
in the new 9,000 seat G. Rollie
White coliseum. Fii'st game on
the 12-game Fish schedule is with
Aldington here Dec. 8.
John DeWitt, former star on the
1950-52 teams, will assist head
coach John Floyd with the varsity
and freshmen. DeWitt was recent
ly x'eleased from the air force. He
was a thi-ee-year basketball and
baseball letterman here and also
lettered in ti’ack.
Vai'sity cocaptains John Forten
berry and Pat McCrory are the
only lettermen back fro m last
yeax-’s squad. Four junior college
transfers and 10 sophomores off
last year’s Fish team are the other
contenders.
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peared to be eager for a chance | He had never played fullback be-
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’MURAL HIGHLIGHTS
Squadron 7 ran over B anti
aircraft artillery, 26-6, in up
per-classmen intramural bas
ketball yesterday. In other
games, squadron 23 * beat
squadron 6, 11-10 and Puryear hall
beat Mitchell hall, 12-9.
In uppei'classmen intramural ten
nis, A field artillei'y won over
squadron 11, 2-1; B field artillery
won over B infantry, 3-0; and A
ordnance won over D field artill
ery, 3-0.
Squadron 7 crushed squadron 16,
32-0, in freshmen intramui’al foot
ball. In other games, squadron 10
beat squadron 1, 19-0; squadron 17
beat squadi’on 8, 13-6; squadron 11
beat squadron 2, 13-7j and squad
ron 3 beat squadron 12, 12-8.
In freshmen intramural horse
shoes, B anti-aircraft artillei’y won
over squadron 22, 3-0; D infantry
won over squadron 13, 2-0; D field
artillery won over A armor, 2-1;
A signal corps won over A trans
portation corps, 2-1; and A infan
try won over A quartermaster
corps, 3-0.
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