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\ J. REYNOLDS BACCO CO. Fish Crunch Through Unbeaten Owlets 34-21 Rebounding higher than a kite after a humiliating 14-38 loss to Baylor’s Cubs in their last game, the Aggie Fish put a gleam in their fans’ eyes again last night with a convincing 34-21 win over the previously unbeaten Rice Owl ets. The Fish scored from way out and in close, and sent 4,500 specta tors home saying “Wait ’til next year.” Sensational halfback John Crow and fullback Ken Hall led a crunch ing ground game that ate out 310 yards through a hard-fighting, heavy Owlet forward wall. Crow led all ball carriers with 122 yards in 12 carries. Hall, who didn’t start the game, had 95 yards in 5 tides, including an 84-yard scoring run. Rice’s leading runner was half back Virgil Mutschink with 50 yards in 11 tries. Quarterback Frank Ryan completed 9 of 15 passes for 103 yards and a touch down for the Owlets. Oddly, the Owlets led in first downs 16-12, and gained 369 yar ds on offense to 356 for the Fish. Rice completed 12 of 22 passes for 138 yards. A&M tried only 6, complet ed 2 for 46 yards and a touchdown. The Fish line gave up 253 yards rushing, but when the chips were down, Maroon-shirted freshmen were there. A&M jammed Owlet drives on the 6, 10 and 19-yard lines. A&M took a 13-0 lead early in the second quarter, then made it 20-7 at the half after Rice had scored. Hall’s 84-yard scamper made it 27-7 early in the third period, then the Owlets stormed back for two touchdowns. With the score 27-21, Crow broke off right tackle and raced 40 yards for a touchdown to insure the game for the Fish. Rice received the opening kick off, and Hill fumbled on third down, with Fish guat'd'Jim Stan ley, a great lineman last night, recovering on the Owlet 22. Crow hit tackle for 3, then quarterback Jimmy Wright faked a handoff, dropped back and threw to end Bobby Marks in the end zone for the first score. Crow kicked the extra point, and the Fish led 7-0 with 2 minutes, 20 seconds gone. Early in the second quarter, Owlet halfback Lester Veltman was jarred by three Fish linemen, fumbled and end Dean Meeks re covered for A&M on the Rice 30. After a 5-yard penalty, Wright faked a handoff and threw to Meeks for 27 yards and a first down on the 8. Crow and Wright punched to the 2, then Hall hit the middle for the score. A high snap from center ruined the extra point try. The Owlets took the kickoff and moved 65 yards to score in 9 plays. A 27-yard run by Hill to the 15 after an attempted pass set it up. Veltman scqred on second down from the 1. Bergstrom’s kick made it 13-7. Halfback Billy Dendy returned the kickoff 34 yards to the Fish 44, and 10 plays later quai-terback Bobby Conrad scored from the 5 on a keeper off left tackle. Ed Dudley kicked the extra point. The Owlets drove to the Aggie 11 after the kickoff, led by Hill’s passing. On fourth and three, Mut schink was stopped at right end after a 1-yard gain, and the Fish took over. On the first play after the sec ond half kickoff, Owlet center James .Crawford recovered a fum- r DYERS- FUR STORAGE HATTERS Students .. . Use Our Convenient Pick Up Stations At Taylor’s Variety Store — North Gate £J£J/VIJ* j 4A/Y’ will conduct PERSONAL INTERVIEWS on campus November 16 and 17 Boeing has many positions open for graduating and graduate students. These opportunities are in all branches of engineering (ae, ce, ee, me and related fields). Also needed are physicists and mathematicians with advanced degrees. Fields of activity include design, research, and production. Your choice of location: Seattle, Washington or Wichita, Kansas. A group meeting, first day of campus visit, will precede personal interviews. Details of openings, nature of assignments, company projects, etc., will be explained. Married students are invited to bring their wives. Come and learn about these excellent oppor tunities with an outstanding engineering organiza tion—designers and builders of the B-47 and B-52 multi-jet bombers, America’s first jet transport and the bomarc F-99 pilotless aircraft project. For time and place of group meeting and for personal interview appointments—Consult your PLACEMENT OFFICE Af*?f*LA/VJE Ca/tlM/Vir Seattle Wichita ble on the Fish 27. Rice pounded to the 7, but Kelley was swarmed under on a fourth down line plunge with 3 needed, and the Fish got the ball on their 6. Crow and Dudley .carved out a first on the 16, then came the game’s most spectacular play. Hall took a handoff from Wright, slant ed off right tackle toward the side line and outran the entire Rice team on an 84-yard dazzler. End Roger Hobson took out an Owlet and an official with a nice block. A&M Fencers To Meet Rice, TSC A&M’s fencing team will meet Rice and Tarleton State college at 8 a.m. Saturday in the ball room of the Memorial Student Center. The Aggies, defending Southwest conference champions, belong to three leagues—Southwest Confer ence, Amateur Fencing League of America and the Invitational lea gue. Co-captains Arthur E. Garner and Bill Huettel, in addition to five pther returning letter men, make up the core of this year’s squad. S PORT H O RT S By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor It took a long time, seven weeks to be exact, but now most football fans are convinced that the Arkansas Razor- backs aren’t the luckiest team in the country. After a 28-15 win over Rice last week, their seventh in a row, the Razor- backs finally are favored to win a football game. (Arkansas was picked to win itk opener from Tulsa, then the “experts” turned their backs.) A victory over SMU tomorrow gives 1954’s Cinderella team a Cotton Bowl berth and probably will send the state of Arkansas into the biggest celebration since it entered the Union. This week’s predictions: Arkansas 21, SMU 14. A&M 16, Rice 13. TCU 21, Texas 13. SMU Is Crippled The Razorbacks have every in centive to go about against the Mustangs, and SMU also is well battered after the Aggie game. About 27,000 are expected to pack the Fayetteville stadium, built to hold only 22,000. Porker guard Bud Brooks was the Associated Press lineman of the week after the Rice game, and Coach Bowden Wyatt said it wasn’t even Brooks’ best effort of the Season. Henry Moore, George Walker, etc., are reported ready to go, and it looks like there will be great rejoicing in the land of acorns and razorbacks Saturday night. At Kyle field, meanwhile, the Aggies try to break a nine-year losing string to Rice and give Head Coach Paul Bryant his sec ond straight decision over Owl coach Jess Neely. Bryant’s Ken tucky team beat Rice’s Cotton Bowl champs 19-13 last year. Can Ags Give Top Effort Again? The Ag first team has had a Cadets most of the time this sea- minimum of contact work this son, but not this week, we hope, week and should be physically Texas will have some more line- ready for another top effort. The U p changes when it meets TCU at way the Cadets have played about Fort Worth. Tackle Langford every week despite tough losses Sneed has been changed to end, has been one of the high points and halfback Billy Quinn moved back to his original fullback spot. The Steers didn’t show much of the SWC season. Many fans and sports writers think the Cadets are going to win at least one conference game. Ex- against Baylor, and Charlie Brew er might replace Glenn Dyer at quarterback. Dyer played most of actly how much they want to beat the Baylor game. TCU had two the Owls will be shown tomorrow, weeks to get ready, and the Frogs We’ve been wrong about the have a definite offensive edge. r Friday, November 12, 1954 THE BATTALION Page 3 CHS Meets Waller Tonight, Seeks Second Place Tie The A&M Consolidated Tigers wind up their 1954 grid campaign tonight against the Waller Bull dogs at Waller. Game time is 8 p.m. A win in this final game would give them a second place tie in district 25-A and boost their sea son record to 6 wins and 4 losses. At present CHS is in a four-way deadlock for the runner-up slot with Waller, Cypress-Fairbanks, and Katy. Each of these teams have a 2-2 conference mark. The winner of the Cypress-Fairbanks and Katy game will share second place with the winner of the Tiger- Bulldog game. Carroll, Litton Out The Tigers will play without the services of two key performers tonight. Quarterback J. B. Car- roll and George Litton, 170-pound tackle will be out of action due to knee injuries. The Bulldogs will not be up to full sti’ength either. Ace fullback Travis Sorsby missed last week’s game, and will probably not play against the Tigers. Waller will have a weight ad vantage of about 20-pounds per man, but this has been the case in most of the Tiger games so far this season. CHS Trails in Statistics The Tigers trail their nine op ponents in almost every depart ment of game statistics. CHS has 205.2 yards rushing to their opponents 218.7. The Tigers have 41.5 yards per contest in the air as compared to 54.4 for their rivals. These figures give Con solidated a net total of 246.7 yards per game and their opponents 273.1. The Tigers have averaged 30.7 yards on punts and their oppon ents 29.8. CHS has racked up 100 first downs and 148 points in nine games. Opposing teams have 103 first downs against Tiger defense. Wade Leads Tigers Bobby Joe Wade continues to lead Tiger ball-carriers with 651 yards in 101 trips. This is good for an average of 6.4 yards per carry. Travis Englebrecht has Kittens Lose 28-2 In Season Finale The A&M Consolidated junior high Kittens ended their 1954 football season on a losing note last night, as they were stomped by the Huntsville Hornets 28-2. This win handed Huntsville the district title and left the Kittens resting in second place. The Hor nets finished their league schedule with an unblemished 6-0 showing, while the Kittens had a 4-1-1 con ference mark and a 6-1-1 season I'ecord. Huntsville had only a 7-2 lead at half time, but they pushed across three T.D.’s in the final half to win easily. The Hornets had a 269-203 lead in net yardage gained. Dean Slovacek scooted 33 yards in the first quarter to give the Hornets a 6-0 margin, and Mon roe Parher slammed across for the extra point. Consolidated got its lone two points in the second period, when Dee Smith and Pete Rodriquez crashed through to bring down Charles Thompson in his own end zone. In the thii’d quarter, Slovacek sprinted four yards for the tally, and he then smashed over for the P.A.T. The Hornets sewed up the vic tory with two last quarter touch downs. Tanis Rodriquez and Slo vacek rambled to pay dirt on runs of 23 and 31 yards. Slovacek and Thompson cracked the middle of the Kitten line for the last two extra points. gained 687 yards in 107 tries for a 5.9 average. Wade also tops the scorers with 37 points. Englebrecht has made 36 points, and Carroll 33. The probable starting offensive line-up will have Jerry Oden and Dick Hickman at ends, Henry Phillips and Ed Linton tackles, Garland Andrews and Jack Mc- Neely guards, Manuel Garcia cen ter. In the backfield Norman Floeck will be at quarterback, Tommy Barker and Englebrecht, halfbacks, and Wade at fullback. Talk to your GREAT SOUTHERNER* ROW about FimC/AL INDEPENDENCE for yourself and your family! W. DEE KUTACH Ph. 2-1235 Res. 6-1281 Great Southern £ife insurance Company HOME OFFICE • HOUSTON. 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