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Thursday, October 13, 1955
THE BATTALION
Pag’e 3
Aggies, Froggies Clash for 50th Time
In Crucial Conference Battle Saturday
FISH QUARTERBACK Jackie Hathorn, 175-pound Port
Neches high school product, will see lots of action in to
night’s battle with the Baylor Cubs. Hathorn completed
two out of three passes against TCU’s Polywogs last week
for 37 yards, and picked up 27 yards in five carries on the
ground.
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M and TCU celebrate 50
years of continuous football
rivalry Saturday, and both
head coaches are making elab
orate preparations for the big
occasion.
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant plans
to serve the Horned Frogs several
quick shots of Old Crow and Old
Taylor, spiced with an occasional
dash of Jack Pardee.
TCU Coach Abe Martin, not one
to be outdone, counters with a
vicious forward wall and a guy
named Swank—Swunk—Swing, or
something like that.
“They’re studs! Ever’ one of
’em,” says Assistant Coach Jer
ry Claiborne. “What they
haven’t got they don’t even
need.”
Statistic wise, the Froggies de
serve their No. 1 ranking in the
conference, and No. 7 place among
the nation’s top teams. They pace
the loop in per-game offense with
a 373 yard average in four games,
and also hold down the top spot in
average defense per game with
143.5 yards.
Only blight on the rosy TCU of
fensive picture seems to be its
passing attack, which is the lowest
in the league at an average of 38.7
yards per contest. The Aggies
own a 45 yards per game average
through the air.
“Why should they pass?” said
Assistant Coach Phil Cutchin,
who has scouted the TCU team
in its last two games, “they’ve
never been in trouble. Oh, they
throw a pass now and then just
to see if they can go all the way.
But, their running game is def
initely their strength.”
A&M’s ground attack has also
been its most potent offensive
weapon, and it is second only to
the Froggies among Southwest
Conference teams. The Cadets
have averaged 243 yards per game
rushing, and have been very ef
fective in stopping opponent’s
ground gaining. Through four
games now, A&M has not been
scored against on the ground.
Unlike TCU, which has depended
on James Swink to amass one-
third of its total rushing yardage,
A&M’s ball toting duties have been
spread among several outstanding
backs. Among these are John
Crow, Loyd Taylor, Jack Pardee,
George Gillar, Ken Hall, Ed Dud
ley, Don Watson, Bill Dendy and
Donnie Grant, any one of whom
could go all the way on any play.
Crow Top Ball Carrier
Crow, who saw only limited ac
tion in last week’s romp over Ne
braska, is third in SWC rushing
with 223 yards, and a 6.2 average
gain per try. Pardee is seventh
in ball carrying with 170 yards,
and averages 6.8 yards every time
he carries the ball. He ran only
once against Nebraska last Satur
day, for 1 yard.
“We don’t have a man on our
team who could make the first
string line at TCU,” commented
Coach Cutchin, “and this guy
Pitts—he’s the greatest lineback-
(See TCU GAME, Page 6)
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Aggie Fisli Meet Miglily Cubs
On Kyle Field Tonight at 7:30
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Writer
A&M’s talented Fish, with
an eye on another Southwest
Conference freshmen title,
run headon into Baylor’s Su
per-charged Cubs on Kyle
Field tonight at 7:30.
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The Cubs, branded by many as
the “greatest first-year team in
Baylor’s history,” bring what
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant terms,
“The greatest array of freshmen
football talent ever assembled at
a college,” here to do battle with
the revenge-minded Fish.
Last year the Cubs humiliated
the previously unbeaten Aggies,
38-14, for A&M’s only loss of the
campaign. The Fish would like
to reverse the charges this trip.
Heralded early as the two best
freshmen teams in the SWC, the
winner of tonight’s clash may well
emerge as the conference champ.
Both won easy victories in their
initial outing; the Fish bombing
TCU 27-6, and the Cubs crushing
the Texas Shorthorns, 48-7.
A&M downed a big Wog team
with ease as three full teams push
ed the Ft. Worth visitors around at
will. The quick Fish line out
weighed 17 pounds per man, hit
harder and quicker than their
heavier opponents and pounded the
TCU backs for five fumbles.
Quarterbacks Luther Hall, Jackie
Hathorn and Hal Sandefur directed
the first three teams to 325 yards
rushing and passing, with Hall hit
ting three of four passes for 42
yards. Hathorn connected on two
of three for 37 yards.
Hall picked up 27 yards in nine
carries—one an 11-yard scoring
dash from the left halfback posi
tion on a handoff from Sandefur—
while Hathorn got 27 on five tries.
Joe Pascuzzi, 25-year-old ex-
serviceman from Pennsylvania,
was the game’s leading ground
(See FISH FOOTBALL, Page 4)
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71
Price
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Fisher
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