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►ervice othes in i know ad clean, l in top putation sfaction. GEHATTERS c<a:rt Si Capp Kelly Cadets Start Workouts For Texas After Loss A&M’s varsity starts drilling to day for the Thanksgiving Day battle in Austin with the Univer sity of Texas after a day off Mon day following the 29-19 loss to Rice. The game with the Longhorns nine days from today will be the 61st meeting between the two schools, one of the oldest rivalries in the country. A&M has never beaten Texas at Memorial Sta dium. Head Coach Paul Bryant said to day’s^ practice would be a normal “Monday” workout for the Cadets, meaning a light session. The Fish practiced as usual yesterday, pre paring for the eighth annual bene fit Shrine game here Saturday with the Texas Shorthorns. Bryant said, “I thought we play ed a pretty good game. We were beaten on our kicking game, our strongest point before Saturday. We sure played a fine first half, with the exception of a couple of mistakes. I was disappointed in our play in the second half after Rice scored their safety.” The closed-circuit television set the Aggies used on their bench as an experiment “was very helpful, particularly in certain areas when we wanted to find out what their defense was doing,” Bryant said. A camera on the top deck of the press box flashed a bird’s-eye view to quarterbacks not in action and to the Aggie coa«|hes. It was the first time Bryant had used it. Asked what he thought of the 34-21 defeat the Fish pinned on the Owlets Thursday night, Bryant said, “I certainly was pleased with their effort and poise, and particu larly with the score—I was pleased with the score first. They’ve show ed quite a bit of improvement since the Baylor game.” • In Saturday’s game, the Aggies lead 14-2 in first downs and gained 195 yards to Rice’s 84 in the first half, yet had only a 13-13 tie. After the Aggies had made a first down, Dicky Moegle intercept ed Elwood Kettler’s pass and ran it 12 yards to the Ag 46. On the next play, quarterback Atchley Proctor rolled out to the right and passed to end Lamoine Holland, who tipped the ball into the hands of Morris Stone on the 15. Don Kachtik missed a desperate dive at the 3 and Btone scored. Jack Throckmorton converted with 4:10 gone. A&M took the kickoff and ground 70 yards in 14 plays. Kach tik gained 42 of them, 23 on a Rice Game ‘Same Old Story’ Neely Says Ags Are Fine Team 9 By The Battalion Sports Staff A&M had just lost another foot ball game, and Head Coach Paul Bryant sat in his chair and sighed, “It was the same old story—just a different Saturday.” On the other side of the field, Rice coach Jess Neely said of the Aggies, “They’re a fine team to have had such little success so far.” Bryant had just finished a short talk inside the door to his office with John Kimbrough, 1939 and ’40 all-American, who had been hon ored -at halftime. After “Jarrin’ John” left, Bryant said, “Rice has a very fine football team. I think Dicky Moegle is a great back, al though I didn’t get to watch him much.*’ Asked about turning points in the game, Bryant replied, “I thought there were several—that blocked punt, the missed field goal, Rice’s second touchdown.” Joe Schero’s blocked punt was “the first kick I’ve ever had blocked on me,” Bryant said. “It was a bad pass from center.” Elwood Kettler’s missed field goal “was a bad snapback again,” said Bryant. Kettler ‘All Right’ He thought end Bennie Sinclair and fullbacks Jack Pardee, Don Kachtik and Bob Easley stood out for the Aggies. Kettler ? “He must have done all right since we scored three touchdowns.” Th(*i Bryant said, “But let’s not talk about the Aggies. Let’s talk about some of those Rice players like I£enny Paul and Throckmorton and that bunch. They won the game.” i i “I was very much disappointed in our play in the fourth quarter,” Bryant said. Then he added,! “Coach Neely did a fine job oif bringing his boys back after losing to Arkansas. That’s the test of a good coaching staff, when they can bring their team back after a loss.” Owls ‘Looked Tired’ In the Owl dressing room, mean while, Neely didn’t think his team had played its best game. “We were not as alert as we should have been,” he said. “We won, but that’s about all I can say. Our boys looked tired—no zip. They didn’t seem to have the get-up- and-go.” Then Neely complimented the Cadets, saying, “The entire Aggie team played a fine game.” “The breaks were about evenly divided, I thought,” Neely added. “The blocked punt gave up a good break, of course.” Moegle, held to 54 yards in 12 carries, said, “The team sure made that one for us. I’m glad to see that it’s over.” He pointed to Kettler and Kachtik as the out standing Cadets and said, “Kach tik is as good a runner as we’ve faced. I don’t think he’s any better than Henry Moore of Arkansas, but he’s certainly as good.” Captain Kenny Paul had this to say: “A&M had a good team all around. I’d hesitate to single out one playet- as the best. I know all the Aggie exes are proud of them, because they really went out there to win. They had a good running attack. Paul Bryant surely made a good team out of them.” slashing run off left tackle to the 13. Kettler sneaked over from the 1, then converted. A&M went ahead 13-7, scoring after center Lloyd Hale covered Moegle’s fumble on the Owl 15. Ronald Robbins powered oyer from the 1 behind guard Ray Barrett after Kachtik had rammed for 14 and 2 up the middle. Later in the quarter, tackle Jay Riviere fell on a mixed up Aggie handoff on the Cadet 15. From the 10, Pinky Nisbet faked a hand off to the fullback and pitched to Hol land in the end zone. Joe Schero blocked Throckmorton’s conversion kick. Rice went ahead to stay early in the third period. A clipping penalty forced the Cadets back to the 1, and Schero stepped back to kick on third down. The snap from center was high and wide, and tackle Eddie Rayburn hurtled through to block the boot out of the end zone for a safety. Late in the period Kettler missed a field goal after a Cadet drive sputtered on the 15. The snap back to holder Don Watson was high, and the kick was short and very wide. Following this, Rice marched 80 yards in 12 plays, fullback Jerry Hall scoring from the 2. The Ag gies took the kickoff back 66 yards in 12 plays, Kettler scoring on fourth down from a half yard out. His conversion attempt was low. Cantu First As Steers Win Cross Country Burr-headed Inocensio Can tu, ace distance man for the Uniyersity of Texas, ran 2.6 miles in 11 minutes, 50 sec onds yesterday to lead the Steers to the Southwest conference cross country title here. Cantu crossed the finish line 25 yards ahead of Aggie Bill Cocke as Texas dethroned the defending champion Cadets 35-37. Texas runners also finished third, fourth, eleventh and sixteenth, while A&M had men in second, fifth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth. Cocke’s time was 11:59. Arkansas was third with 56 points, followed by SMU with 113 and TCU with 119. Baylor and Rice did not compete. Cadet ace Vernon Westmore land, running with a cold, finished eighth, and Razorback Alan Ash- baugh was. sixth. The race had been billed as a duel between them and Cantu. Westmoreland had beaten Ashbaugh and divided two with Cantu. The top 15 runners were: 1—Cantu; 2—Cocke; 3—Foers- ter, Texas; 4—Neighbors, Texas; 5—Boles, A&M; 6—Ashbaugh, Ar kansas; 7—Ed Morton, Arkansas; 8—Westmoreland, A&M; 9—Tal- mage Hooper, Arkansas; 10—F. R. Rul, A&M; 11—Hulon Hale, Texas; 12—Edwin Blake, A&M; 13—James Wood, TCU; 14—Jim Tennison, Arkansas; 15 — John ny Whitwell, A&M. * ^ V ' ' * > v0< ^ | ^ o The Aggie rifle team won its fourth straight match of the season Saturday morning defeating Rice Institute, 1,383 to 1,342. High point man was Guy Andrews with 285 out of 300. Don Phillips had the only per fect 100 from a prone position but finished with a 277 total. Others firing for A&M, coached by Sgt. Samuel O. Lucky, were Sid Ferrell, Fred Galley and Charles Bombar dier. WHOA THERE—Aggie fullback Bob Easley rolls up 11 yards through the middle for a first down on the Rice 11 yard line in the fourth quarter. Tackle Layton Goleman (75), halfback Gordon Kellog (36) and fullback Jerry Hall (44) are finally getting him stopped. A&M tackle Larry Winkler (78) is out in front of the play. ( Advertisement) P4TICUE CAP T8LENJCU COAT ■ a V i *C ft ffhhfSfStiWtW £>WGAT WO^Kv. QL.Os/E'S ARMY, WUY MOT &E. TI4E. BEST DRESSE.D KAAM WORKlKiCi OKI TUG eOUPIRB? Y\AYBE TUI'S VGAR WG CAM UAV& A CTYL-G-SUOW fkl COMJUMCTOM W/TU Tue WOOD-STACKiWC PESmvrnESf CUECK SOUR AMD SJELG IT VOO&E. AS WEL.L. GrOuiPPGO AS 3UOUCU f UlT TU& GXCUAWC^E. SToee c-oe. WEEDSr BEI41MD UECCETT EX<HAM6E VTORE SERGIUC TEXAS ACC/CS Tigers Bow 27-13 To Waller in Finale A&M Consolidated halfback Bob by Joe Wade returned the second half kickoff 90 yards, but Waller’s Herman Hoff scored twice in the final quarter Friday night for a 27-13 Bulldog win in the season’s last game for both teams. The loss booted Consolidated in to a fourth place tie in the final district 25-A standings and gave them a season record of six wins and five losses. Hoff was the game’s leading scorer and ground gainer, going over for three touchdowns, carry ing fqur times for 127 yards and catching three passes for 102 yards. His 75-yard scoring run in the second quarter put Waller ahead at the end of the first half. In the fourth quarter, with the score tied 13-13, Hoff rambled 46 yards. He scored again minutes later, com bining with Lewis Reimer on a pass play that covered 55 yards. CHS went into the game with a chance to tie for second place in the district standings. Wade led the Tigers offensively with 111 yards on 13 carries. Man uel Garcia, Norman Floeck, Jerry Oden, Bobby Johnson, Henry Phil lips and Ed Linton starred on de fense for Consolidated. For Wal ler, Johnny Warren, Jimmy Sug- gitt and Charles Wilson stood out. In the first quarter, the Tigers rolled 28 yards in six plays to a first down on the Waller 2. Four plays later Waller took oven, at the same spot. Early in the second period, Hoff got loose on his 75 yarder to give the Bulldogs a 6-0 lead at the half after the extra point try was block ed. Wade returned the second half kickoff 90 yards after Garcia’s block took out the last defender. FRESHMAN GREEN SLACKS $23-00 Tailor made to your individual measurement— right here at College Station. 1 WEEK DELIVERY ORDER TODAY — THEY WILL BE READY TO TAKE HOME FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS. You Try Them on Before You Pay ZUBIK’S Uniform Tailors 105 N. Main North Gate In the whole wide world- no cigarette satisfies like a Chesterfield! 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