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Aggies’ Sudden Rally Stuns Owls By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor A&M’s “little bunch of ragged- rump boys” erased a 12-0 lead, broke Rice’s 10-year domination, and darted into the seventh spot among the nation’s top elevens— all in 46 seconds last Saturday. The Aggies moved into the No. 7 position on the International News Service football poll this week just behind Notre Dame. TCU was ranked 8th. Varsity footballers took the day off yesterday, and some of them took another look at the game films just to make sure the out come of the battle hadn’t changed. On film the Owls took a 12-0 lead as they had Saturday, but Don Watson was quick to. calm the viewer’s nerves. “Don’t go away anybody, we’re gona’ beat the heck out of ’em in a minute,” cracked Watson, who was a surprise starter at quarterback against Rice. Coach Paul Bryant, who made many weary journeys across the field to congratulate winning coaches last year, found things much easier Saturday. He shook hands with a still-dazed Jess Neely at mid-field from a comfortable pei’ch atop three Aggie linemen. “I’m not surprised at anything we do,” said Bryant in answer to a question about the gi'eatest rally in SWC history, “Rice outplayed us badly, and in all fairness to the Rice coaches, they deserved to win. We’re very, very lucky.” “But no one is as lucky as I am for having the opportunity of coaching a bunch of kids like ours,” said Bryant after the game. Loyd Taylor, who’s about as big as a minute, was the man of the hour for A&M Saturd?.y. Taylor scored all the points that pushed the Aggies out in front, 14-12, a lead they never lost. The 5-8, 163-pound sophomoi’e halfback slashed into the end zone to climax a drive, that he’d sparked with a 58-yard gallop, for the Aggies first score. Seconds later A&M’s Jack Powell booted a slow-rolling onside kick and end Gene Stallings, who was also a standout in the Aggie vic tory, covered the ball on the Rice 44. Jimmy Wright called Taylor’s number again, and heaved a tre mendous 43-yard pass to little No. 45, who took it around the Owl five and raced over the goal line untouched. Jack Pai’dee intercepted King The Battalion Number 48: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1955 PRICE 5 CENTS Hill’s pass following the ensuing kick-off and rumbled to the Rice 8. Watson went over for the tally with 1:09 still remaining. “The good Lord was with us,” said fullback Roddy Osborne in the dressing room after the game, “I knew our team could do it.” Picking standouts for the Ag gies isn’t easy, as Bryant put it, “It takes 11 men to play football you know.” Stallings played his test game of the year, intercepting two crucial- passes, falling on the on-side kick that proved to be the game’s turning point and catching a pass from Wright with two men hanging around his neck. Lloyd Hale trapped Hill for a 9- yard loss in the second quarter, and together with Jim Stanley dropped Pinky Nesbit for a 12-yard loss in the third stanza. 1. Takes more than one man to haul down Aggie halfback John Crow as he moves for yardage against the Rice Owls in Houston last Saturday. A&M won in a last-minute, four-minute spurt 20-12. 2. Things are looking had for A&M when this picture was snapped. The Aggies were down 12-0 and time was running out. The score board (which is out of fo cus) showed only 5:46 left. Two minutes later, howev er, the Aggie bench was go ing wild as the Farmers be gan to really fight. * * # 3. Two unidentified Aggies make Rice’s highflying halfback Paul Zipperlen do a split during action in Sat urday’s game. Zipperlen was the lad who did a lot of damage, scoring both Owl touchdowns and inter cepting a pass to stop an A&M drive. Trees Start Falling ■As Work Begins On Annual Bonfire Work on the world’s target bon fire, scheduled to burn Nov. 23, got underway yesterday, with one load of wood reaching the air force drill field. One senior said a lot of freshmen Were on hand in the cutting area, fcut there were not many sopho mores or juniors. Freshmen were using the ax because of the short age of juniors. The center pole is scheduled to go up today. It is 75 feet long and \vill be spliced and placed eight feet in the ground. Guard posts will be set up on the campus starting tomorrow at 7 p.m. and lasting until next Wed nesday. Wood for guard fires should be obtained from the drill field where stacks will be provided for this pur pose. No wood is to be gathered from construction pi’ojects, build ings or private homes. Radios will be placed at vantage points over the campus Friday. These radios, which are to be oper ated by authorized Signal Corps personnel, will co-ordinate the ef forts of out-guards and the rest of the bonfire guards and college officials. Suspicious cars should be reported to the radio operator in that particular vicinity and he will relay the details of the car’s description to other points on the campus. A and B Composite and Squad rons 22 and 23 will guard the bon fire when the main body of the .Corps is scheduled for mess. Mem bers of athletic outfits, who are not training for their sport, will aid the composite units in their • guai’d each evening. The campus has been laid off into five areas for guax*ding. These ai’e, Ai'ea I, the bonfix-e itself; Area II, 1‘oving from the traffic cii-cle to the System Administration Building and over to dormitoi-y 11; Area III, all North enti’ances to the campus; Area IV, West entrances to the campus and Kyle Field; and Ax-ea V, the Academic Building and roving to the northwest ax-ea. Guards and their areas for the first day of guarding tomorrow are as follows: Hart and Bizzell Halls, Area I from 7-11 p.m. Mitchell Hall, Ai'ea I from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Leggett Hall, Area I from 3-7 a.m. (Guax'ds and their areas will be printed one day ahead of time in The Battalion.) A&M Student Killed In Wreck Donald Ray Schilling Killed in Auto Crash VS ROTC Test Dates Given by McCannon Major John McCannon, test con trol officer fox* Air Force ROTC training at A&M has announced that any student who desires to apply f° r an advanced Air Force ROTC eonti-act dui’ing January, 1956, or September, 1956, must take the Air Force Officer Quali fication Tests, commonly called Stanine Tests” during one of the following testing pei’iods: Satui'day ’ and Sunday, Nov. 19 and 20. Satui'day and Sunday, Dec. 3 and 4. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10 and 11. These tests are being given on Satui'day and Sunday aftexmoons, according to Maj. McCannon, in order that a greater number of students might be free to take them without intei’ference from scheduled work. Three testing per iods have been scheduled instead of one in order that all applicants may have an opportunity for test ing. The periods scheduled are the only time the tests will be given WEATHER TODAY Continued cloudy with possible rain showers is the forecast. Yes terday’s 84 degrees dropped to 74 degrees last night. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. today was 79 degxees during the school year," since they are to be graded under Air Force contract by the Educational Re search Corpoi'ation, Cambridge, Mass., and the contract requires that the test answer sheets be for warded in December. Only students who have taken this test will be eligible for advan ced Air Force ROTC training. Any one desiring to take these tests, other than students now register ed at the college in second year Air Force ROTC, must contact Maj. McCannon’s office in room 311, Military Science Building, prior to the testing periods. ACS To Hear Address Tonight Dr. Otto Eisenschiml of Chicago will address the A&M section of the Amei'ican Chemical Society to night on the subject “Solving a Chemical Murder Case.” There will be an informal dinner in the honor of Dr. and Mrs. Eisen schiml at 6:15 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. Section members and their wives will be guest at the dinnei'. A social hour will be held in the home of Mrs. C. W. Burch- ai'd, 800 Aberdeen Place, after Dr. Eisenschiml’s talk. Caine Mutiny Trial Continues Tonight The Aggie Players will again present the Caine Mutiny Court Martial at 8 tonight in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. The drama, which had its first per formance last night, will also be held tomorrow. Admission for the programs is 50 cents for students and 75 cents for adults. C. K. Esten of the English De partment is directing the show. Members of the cast are Chaides Wax-e as Greenwald; Bill Swann, Max-yk; Don Powell, Challee; Toby Hughs, Blakely; Harry Gooding, Queeg; Hugh Lanktree, Keefer; Connie Eckai’d, Uxban; Don Fisher, Keith; Jim Leissner, Southard; Lester Cochran, Lundeen; Ted Castle, Bii'd; Roger Alexan der and Roy Cline, members of the court; Ward Boyce, stenogxapher; and Roger Clark, orderly. Pete Justice is stage manager and Billy Joe Campbell is business manager. Donald Schilling Victim; Two Other Aggies Hurt By DAVE McREYNOLDS Battalion Staff Writer Silver Taps was held last night for Donald Ray Schilling, 19, of Dayton, who was killed in a head-on collision late Sun day night on the La Porte Highway inside the Pasadena, Tex., city limits. Schilling, a sophomore civilian chemical engineering major, was A&M’s first traffic fatality of the year. The crash that took Schiller’s life also injured two other A&M students that had spent the Corps Trip weekend with him. These two, neither of whom were hurt seriously, were Bobby R. Pipes, sophomore mechanical engineering major ♦ from Dayton, and Ira Ford Flurry Jr., sophomore animal husbandry major from Liberty. Both suffered cuts and bruises. + Also in the car was Miss Barbara Reidland, Schilling’s fiance and last year’s fresh man sweetheart at A&M. Miss Reidland suffered cuts and bruises. The students were taking the girl back to her dormitory at the University of Houston and had then planned to retuim to school. The Schilling car was heading west when the accident happened, crash ing head-on into a car driven by a Pasadena youth, Richard Hooper. He and two friends reportedly es caped serious injury. Witnesses expressed the belief that there was a two-car race go ing east on the highway when the collision occui'red. Schilling is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mx-s. D. W. Schilling of Dayton; one brother, Wilbur; and two married sisters, Mrs. A. E Matthews and Mis. R. K. Mace. Funeral services will be held at 3 tomorrow afternoon in the First Methodist Church in Dayton. Community Extends ’55 Chest Drive F. C. Bolton Hired For Electric Post F. C. Bolton, president emeritus of the college, was employed by the College Station City Council to make a survey of the city’s elec trical system at the Council’s monthly meeting held last night. Bolton will make his report to the council before they decide on proposed changes and improve ments in the system. In other action, the council ap pointed G. K. Vetter to the City Planning Commission in the place of A. C. Baker who was killed re cently while cleaning a gun. The city accepted the annual audit, and Mayor Ernest Langford announced he was mailing copies of the audit to all tax-payers in the city. Turkey Shoot At Kyle Field Lasts ’Till 8 The turkey shoot sponsored by the Range and Forestry Club is being held today from 2 to 8 p.m. One-hundred tur keys are to be given away. Tickets which Will be sold at the door are 75 cents. The contest is at the Kyle Field range, and contestants will shoot in groups of 10. Each group will compete for one turkey, which will be won by the best score. Two shots are allowed per person, and the two closest win regardless of location on target. More than two shots on a target will mean dis qualification. Contestants . will fire from a standing position, and no personal guns will be allowed. Targets will be at 50 feet. It was emphasized that all con testants must observe range safe ty rules, and violators will be re moved with no refund. Instruc tions will be given to each group of 10 firers. Profits from the turkey shoot will be used to send the grass judging team to the national com petition in Denver, Colo. The A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest-Red Cross drive has been extended until next Saturday, Robert A. Houze, chair man of the drive announced today. $10,237.02 of the $12,100 goal had beeh collected at the last count yesterday, with odds and ends still coming in from all over the city and campus. Only ten departments of the 100 on the campus have contributed 100 per cent. Several have not com pleted their report and more lack only one or two contributions be- January Graduates All January graduates will meet in room 2-A of the Memorial Stu dent Center Wednesday night at 7:15 p.m. according to Office of Student Activities. It is imperative that all mem bers of the graduating class be present as commencement exercises will be discussed. fore they become 100 per cent. Out of 83 business houses in Col lege Station, 51 have contributed. In addition, 20 Bryan business houses have given to the , Chest Drive. Last week’s bad weather slowed up the volunteer women solicitors who were to cover all homes whose occupants had no other chance to contribute. As a result, no report has been made from this source. “We feel very confident that we will make the goal, and perhaps go over it,” said Houze. “The re sponse already has been as good as in any past year.” Ag TAssociation To Meet Tonight There will be a T-Association meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in room 3-D of the MSC. The topic to be discussed is the fall banquet. Cof fee and donuts will be served. Aggieland Schedule Juniors having their pictures taken today are A Signal Corps A Quartermaster Corps, A Chemi cal Corps, A and B Composite, A and B Athletics, Second Regiment Staff, and Third and Fourth Bat talion Staffs. Thursday and Friday are Squad rons 1 through 9, First Wing Staff, and First, Second, and Third Group staffs. WHAT NOW, COACH?—Rice quarterback King Hill seems to have a questioning look about what his next move should be. A&M fullback and linebacker Jack Pardee is ready with an answer. “Fall.” Moments later Hill obeyed Par dee’s emphatic command as he ate mud. A&M won the game in the final four minutes with a dramatic comeback that left 68,000 fans at the game stunned and limp.