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Tuesday, October 18, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 itter had lead- for 55 10 le ae 31* /e • LO ce J6 e- 'e •e * ? over “6 gies Dissect Mighty 19-16 NOT THIS TIME—Kenny Hall attempts to sweep right end behind the blocking of Dean Meeks and an unidentified Aggie, only to be pulled down by TCU’s great end Bryan En- gram. It didn’t matter, for A&M went on to roll up a 19-16 victory over the Froggies. By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor With the calculated precis ion of a practiced surgeon, A&M dissected TCU’s win- bloated Frogs, 19-16, last Sat urday afternoon before 37,000 awe-struck fans at Ft. Worth. TCU’s beaten footballers, rated as one of the nation’s finest elev ens only hours before, filed pain fully off the playing field at the game’s end with the lusty yells of the 12th Man and the thundering strains of the “Aggie War Hymn” haunting them every step of the long trek to their dressing room. Loyal Frog fans stood dumb mouthed, watching their fallen idols. NO TEAM could stop James Swink, Vernon Hallbeck, Ray Tay lor and Charles Curtis, but the Aggies did. No team could pene trate that massive TCU line—third best defensive unit in the nation— but the Aggies did. TIME and time again the bril liantly drilled Cadets thumbed their noses at TCU’s defensive prowess, and piled up an almost un believable total of 407 yards on of fense—351 yards of it exacted from the heart of the Christian’s gran ite-like forward wall. “I’M NOT going to say anymore about this game,” Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant told his jubilant team after the game, “There aren’t words in my vocabulary to describe it. But you know what we’re after. We’re one step nearer now.” PACED by a bevy of high-veloc ity backs such as Don Watson, Ed Dudley, Bill Dendy, Jack Pardee and Loyd Taylor, the incomparable Aggies felt TCU’s pulse early in the game, and found it wq^k. IN THE FINAL analysis of the game, however, it was the inspired Aggie linemen, outweighed 13 pounds per man by the 205 pound Frog line, who helped lead A&M’s Light Brigade out of the shadow of defeat. They chopped and hack ed brief holes in the vaunted Horn ed Frog defense to allow the mer cury-footed Cadet backs to frolic in TCU’s secondary all afternoon. LEFT HALFBACK Watson, 155 pounds of classic speed, jerked the press clippings right out from un der Swink. Don zipped for 98 yards in seven carries and a whop ping 14 yard average, scored two touchdowns, and played quarter back to boot. His 61-yard scoring scamper in the final period broke the Froggies’ back, and gave A&M its winning margin. WATSON and Dendy, a 5-8', 163 pounder, subbed for John Crow, A&M’s leading ball carrier through its first four games, who was in jured on the 10th play of the game. Dendy streaked for 74 yards in eight trips and a 9.2 yards per-carry average. AGGIE TRAINER Smokey Har per says that Crow “might” be ab le to play against Baylor Saturday, but wants to see how much he im proves in the next two days before deciding. “I’ll be ready,” says Crow emphatically DUDLEY, sophomore speedster from Pampa, ground out 52 yards and managed to rack up a respec table 8.3 average. Taylor and Par dee ranked just behind Dudley in ushing with 48 and' 38 yards re spectively. TCU, boasting the top punt re turner in the SWC in Ken Wine- burg, didn’t even attempt to run through the Aggies’ close punt coverage network, electing instead to call for fair catches. In their last four games now, the Cadets have not had a punt returned against them. “THEY WERE as great as any body we played all last year—in cluding Oklahoma,” said Hugh Pitts, TCU’s great center, and all- American nominee. TCU STARTED the game in an imposing manner, taking the open ing kickoff and marching to the Aggie 16 from its own 35 in 12 plays. 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