Thursday, November 10, 1955
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Once Star Halfback
Keith Puts Teeth
In Light Ag Line
By BARRY HART
Battalion Sports Writer
Two years ago if any one had told you that Bobby Drake
Keith was to become one of the Southwest Conference’s out
standing ends in 1955, you would have passed them off as
lacking grey matter.
As a freshman Keith did just about everything from
his halfback position and led the 1953 Aggie Fish in five
departments. He played only in 389 plays as a sophomore,
and the wealth of halfback material prompted Coach Paul
(Bear) Bryant to move versatile Bobby to end during Spring
training.
Bobby’s great desire and hustle won him a starting berth,
and it took him but three games to climb to stardom as the
Dallas Morninsr News named*
him Tlnpma.n of the Week af
ter hi« tremendous nlav in the
Aea-ies’ 21-3 win over the Uni-
versit.v of Houston.
“I don’t have to think about who
was outstanding for us asrainst
Houston. I know—Bobby Drake
Keith,” said Coach Bryant, “He
cauerht two touchdown passes,
blocked a punt that resulted in our
other touchdown and played per
fectly on defense.”
BOBBY DRAKE took Donnie
Grant’s pass on the last play of
the third period for nine yards and
A&M’s first score to move out in
front of the Cougars, 7-3. Midway
in the final quarter, with the Ag
gies leading 14-3, Keith blocked a
Houston punt and on the first play
took a pass from Jimmy Wright
and stepped into the end zone for
the final counter.
Keith’s freshman season was one
for the books. He had a grand to
tal of 783 yards gained in all de
partments, including 308 rushing
from scrimmage on 70 carries, sec
ond only to Jack Pardee. Bobby
led the Fish in pass receiving with
three receptions for 64 yards, in
punting with a 38.9 average on 14
kicks, in kickoff returns as he ran
back six for 143 yards, in punt re
turns with 14 for 148 yards, and in
scoring with six touchdowns and
five points after for 41 points.
IN THE FISH opener Keith ran
with the pigskin 10 times for 76
yards and three touchdowns and
added four extra points to lead
A&M past Tarleton, 34-0;. His 69-
yard dash over tackle, in the sec
ond quarter gave the first-year
Aggies a tie with TCU and he
scored the only touchdown for
A&M in the 34-6 loss to Rice.
Against the University of Texas
Shorthorns Bobby Drake ran wild,
gaining a total of 228 yards for
the afternoon, as the Fish brushed
past the Shorthorns, 14-13. Beside
his 75 yards rushing, Bobby ran a
punt back 65 yards for A&M’s first
touchdown, caught a pass for 14
yards, returned two kickoffs for 22,
took another punt for 22 yards and
kicked a vital extra point.
So far this season Keith is sec-,
ond behind Bobby Mai’ks in pass
receiving with 5 catches for 56
yards and three touchdowns, which
ties him with John Crow for sec
ond place in scoring. His six-yard
(See KEITH, Page 6)
BOBBY DRAKE KEITH is the Southwest Conference’s
highest scoring end with 18 points so far this season. The
20-year-old junior from Breckenridge was switched from
halfback to end during spring drills, and has been a pleas
ing surprise.
Fish Meet
Tomorrow
Powerful
Night for
Owlets
Title
By BARRY HART
The Southwest Conference fresh
men championship hangs in the
balance as A&M’s undefeated Fish
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Rice has victories over the Texas
Shorthorns, 20-13, Wharton Junior
College, 19-3, and played the SMU
Colts to a 13-13 tie.
A&M, currently leading the
SWC first-year teams with a 3-0
record, downed TCU, 27-6, and
slipped past the Baylor Cubs and
the University of Houston Kittens
by 7-6 scores.
Last yeaFp game ended Coach
Charlie Moore’s Slimes four-game
win streak over the Fish as, A&M
ran past them,. 34-21. Rice will
have the edge Friday since it ap
pears that the Slimes will have
more speed than the Fish have
power.
Rice has two units of near equal
strength as the so-called second
unit smashed out the three second-
half touchdowns that beat Whar
ton.
Don Shuford, swift left halfback
from Alice, had a great night with
scoring runs of 58 and 8 yards. He
also set up the other touchdown
with a 22-yard dash and had a 70-
yard punt return called back be
cause of a penalty. Shuford has
carried the ball 22 times for 149
yards and returned an SMU kick
off 98 yards for a touchdown.
Wade Rodgers, first team quar
terback from Osceola, Arkansas,
leads the Slime passers with 8
completions in 16 tries for 175
yards. His 32-yard touchdown pass
to end Twyman Ash was the dif
ference in the Texas game.
Alternating with Shuford at left
half, Phillips’ Don Meek has the
longest run in SWC freshmen ball
(See FISH, Page 6)
Aggies Battle Weather,
Both Look ‘Miserable’
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
The Aggies battled the
weather in' practice yesterday,
and according to Coach Paul
Bryant, they were both just
about the same—“miserable!”
“The weather’s not what’s wor
rying me. Our crowd, with a few
exceptions, just doesn’t impress me
as wanting to play anymoi'e. I’ve
tried resting them and tried woik-
ing them, but we’re getting worse
instead of better,” said Bryant de
jectedly. '
A CHILLING rain forced the
Cadets inside the gym-annex of
White Coliseum, where they re
hearsed their plays in tennis shoes.
They finished the afternoon’s work
out with several painful wind-
sprints on Kyle Field.
“We’re goin’ to stand around
and hold hands the rest of the
week. I’m not going to take it out
on them if they don’t want to
play,” Bryant said.
IN HOUSTON the Rice football
team reacted enthusiastically to
the cold weather, and ran through
one of its most spirited workouts
of the year. The Owls appear to
be in their best shape of the sea-
Jockey Frank Smith has an ad
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Monmouth Park. His father works
for the track’s maintenance de
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son, with all-American nominees
Marshall Crawford and Eddie Ray
burn back off the injured list.
Two other starters, guard Jay
Riviere and halfback Page Rogers,
have also left the “cripples’ corps”
and should be okay to play by Sat
urday. Riviere has missed three
games entirely.
RICE VETERAN quarterback,
John (Pinky) Nesbit, has been one
of the sparkplugs of the Owl’s of
fense this year along with sopho
more quarterback stars King Hill
and Frank Ryan. Nisbet is fourth
in SWC passing with 326 yards
and an average of 15.5 yards per
completion. Hill is the loop’s
eighth ranked passer with 193
yards and three TD’s. Hill is also
the conference’s No. 2 punter with
a 40.8 average.
“I don’t know who picks the win
ners before the games, but if they
saw us practice this week they’d
probably have us as underdogs by
40 points,” said Bryant in answer
to a question about his Aggies be
ing seven point favorites over
Rice.
“THEIR PASSING is excellent,
and their running attack is just
about as good. They’ve got the
horses, and I wouldn’t be sur-prised
to see them win their next three
games,” said Coach Jim Owens.
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