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
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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.
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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.