The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 29, 1955, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 29, 1955, Image 3

Newspaper Page TextTuesday, November 29, 19-55 THE BATTALION Page 3 24 Basketball (james Fill A&M Schedule A&M’s basketballers, under the tutelcge of Ken Loeffler, will play three home games in G. Rollie White Coliesum before going on a touj during the Christmas holidays. Their first game at College Sta tion will be with LSU Dec. 10. The for the Dec. Dec. . Dec. Dec. Dec. * Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. . Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. complete 24-game schedule Aggies is as follows: I— Tulsa at Tulsa 3— Vanderbilt at Nash ville 5—Memphis State at Memphis 10—LSU at College Sta. 12— rTulane at College Sta. 14—Houston at College Sta. 28-30—SWC tournament at Houston 4— Baylor at College Sta. 7—Rice at Houston 10—'SMU at Dallas 13— Texas at College Sta. 10—Arkansas at Fayette ville 19—Sam Houston at Col lege Station 21— TCU at College Sta. 30—Oklahoma City at Oklahoma City 4—Houston at Houston II— Baylor at Waco 13—Arkansas at College Station 18—SMU at College Sta. 22— TCU at Fort Worth 25—Rice at College Sta. 28—Texas at Austin. Steers Hand Frogs SWC Title With Stunning Upset les . : - a . ■ .. . .... CLOSING IN—An unidentified Aggie lays a shoulder into Texas halfback Ed Hawkins during open-field action in the annual clash between A&M and UT. Coming up to help is A&M end Gene Stallings (89) and closing in from the front is Aggie halfback Bill Bendy. (Top picture) McCALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate 4-8884 Hy 6 TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNG Student Co-op No. Gate 4-4114 Congratulations!! To The AGGIE FOOTBALL TEAM COACHING STAFF 12TH MAN For the splendid football season record you gave us — * We are proud of you U - PAK - M 3800 So. College Ave. . Gus Ellis ’37 r Effective December 4th on notice to Agent, Burlington Lines 7 SAM HOUSTON Zephyr will stop at NORTH ZULCH to pick up or discharge passengers to or from Dallas and beyond and Houston and beyond. NORTH WARD Houston Zephyr SOUTH WARD 8:35 A.M. Lv. HOUSTON Ar. 9:00 P.M. 10:07 A.M. Lv. NORTH ZULCH Lv. 7:24 P.M. 12:37 P.M. Ar. DALLAS Lv. 5:00 P.M. 1:45 P.M. Ar. FORT WORTH Lv. 4:05 P.M. FORT WORTH ahd PIUWER RAILWAY N. L. CRYAR, Agent, Phone 15, North Zuich, Texas k. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing and little children cheer, but there is no joy in Aggieland, we’ll just wait ’til next year. JARRIN’ JOHN CROW heads into the line against the Long horns in Thursday’s battle be hind strong blocking by team mates. An unidentified Aggie and Lloyd Hale (50), A&M cen ter, take out the Longhorn’s Herb Gray, who proved such a nemisis for Aggie up-the-middle power. Others for A&M are Jack Powell (77) and Bobby Marks (88). Coming up from his defensive halfback post is Texas’ Delano Womack. By RONNIE GREATHOUSE Battalion Sports Editor Coach Eddie Price of Texas milk ed a stunning 21-6 victory out of his contented Orange Cows on Pil grim’s Thanksgiving to knock A&M out of its first championship in 15 years. The defeat, first since A&M’s opening 0-21 loss to UCLA, handed the TCU Horned Frogs the South west Conference title along with the Cotton Bowl bid. “They just flat whipped us and whipped us good,” summed up Coach Paul Bryant, after the game. T mean real good. Wc were for tunate to score at all.” The Aggies finished the season with an impressive 7-2-1 record despite the last game effort by the Longhorns, and wound up second in SWC standings with four wins, one loss and a tie. It marks the end of A&M’s finest season in 12 years. Pardee finished sixth among SWC ball carriers with 452 yards collected on 83 tries. He had a 5.4 yai'ds-per-carry average. John Crow was 13th in rushing with 332 yards on GG carries, and Loyd Tay lor 15th with 307 yards. Taylor was third in place kicking with 13 out of 15. Quarterback Jimmy Wright wound up seventh in passing with 368 yards, six touchdowns and 15.3 yards gained every time he con nected. Roddy Osborne and Ed Dudley finished fourth and fifth respectively in loop punting, while senior halfback Gene Henderson was seventh. Coach Bryant had predicted the Thanksgiving bout with the Steers to be A&M’s toughest of the sea son. It was. “Whether we get beat 60 points in this game, though, these boys will still be No. 1 in my book,” Bryant said on the last day of practice before the game. For a team who wasn’t supposed to win more than one or two games, this season, and end up in the confer ence cellar, who could blame him. A&M was held completely in check by the hard charging Long horn line, and managed to gain only 97 yards all day, lowest of fensive production of the season. Texas ground out 295 yards rush ing and 96 passing to total up 391 yards for its afternoon efforts. A&M could get only three first downs, and those came in the sec ond quarter on its lone TD drive. Three Fencers Place In Meet An A&M fencer placed in the top three winners in each weapon here last Saturday and Sunday in the Men’s In vitational Fencing Meet. Carl Hill of A&M took third place in the open foil and second in the open epee, while Bill Fink garnered third place honors in the open sabre. Medaled cigarette lighters were awarded to the top three men in each weapon. In the open foil Gene Allen, Hardin Simmons, was first; second, Jack Baird, Houston Fencing Club; third, Hill of A&M. In the open eppee Fred Sklar of Rice was first, Hill of A&M, second, and John Curry, Houston, third. Bill Brown, Houston Fencin Club was first in the open sabre; Curry, Houston, second and Fink, A&M, third. The Cadets twice stopped Texas drives inside their own 10-yard line in the first half, then jumped to a quick 6-0 lead three minutes before halftime. A&M went 80 yards in only seven plays climaxed by Wright’s 1-yard smash into the end zone. Wright’s passes covered 57 yards of the distance to the Texas goal as he passed to Crow for 13, Dud ley for 10 and Crow for 34 more to the Longhorn 1-yard stripe. Only 1:45 remained after A&M kicked off following its touchdown, but Texas was not to be denied. End Menan Schriewef grabbed the Aggie kick on his 40 and returned nine yards. Joe Clements came in and promptly fired a pass to half back Ed Hawkins for 28-yards and a first down on the Aggie 18. Clements found Schriewer, the SWC’s leading pass snatcher, in the end zone and hit him for the score. Johnny Elam kicked the extra point to put Texas in front 7-6. Texas wound things up with a flourish in the fourth quarter. Wright fumbled on the Aggie 46 to begin the final period of play, and Texas recovered. Charley Brewer, Walter Fondren and Haw kins set up a first down on the A&M 13. Hawkins blasted for six and Fondren rambled over left tackle for the score with 10:40 left in the game. Fondi’en kicked the extra point to make it 14-6. Center Johnny Tatum intercepted Wright’s pass a few minutes later to set the Longhorns up in business again on the Aggie 35. Hawkins circled end for 30 yards. Fondren picked up two, Womack added one and Hawkins bounced through the right side of the line for the score with 8:17 remaining. Fondren’s extra point kick was good again. The longest run of the day, John Crow’s 37-yard dash in the first period, won’t go into the rec ord books because of a penalty on the play. Sqd. 8 Grabs League Title, Stays Unbeaten Squadron 8 retained its unbeaten status in freshman football by downing B-Infantry 14-0 and cap turing its league title. Squadron 17 took its league crown last week also, and has on ly one loss to mar its record so far this year. Squadron 9 downed C-Infantry 13-0 in another freshman football game. Speed and accuracy were enough to .give A-Transportation a 17-14 edge over A-Quartermaster and put them in fine shape to take their basketball crown. The Transpor tation team is undefeated so far. Fred Galley and John Ochter- beck led the A-TC offense with Don Weber, Bud Fichte and Don Hollister close behind. Paul Beck man and Robert Stephenson spark ed the A-QMC attack. Ad Man Will Speak To Sigma Delta Chi All A&M students and faculty have been invited by the A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, na tional journalism fraternity, to hear Dr. Melvin S. Hattwick, ad vertising director of Continental Oil Company (CONOCO) speak to night at 7:30 on “Planning CON- OCO’s Advertising Program.” The meeting will be held in room 3D of the Memorial Student Center. Dr. Hattwick is noted for his advertising work for CONOCO and also as an account executive in the Needham, Louis & Brorby, Inc., Advertising Agency of Chi cago, Ill. P O G O By Walt Kelly J

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 29, 1955, Image 3

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